A Night in Hong Kong
香港の夜
Release: 1961-07-01
·Runtime: 119m
Romance
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
Production Countries
Japan
Hong Kong
Production Companies
TOHO
Motion Picture & General Investment Co., Ltd.
Cast
Akira Takarada
as Hiroshi Tanaka
Lucilla Yu Ming
as Wu Li Hung
Mitsuko Kusabue
as Yu Lan
Hiroshi Koizumi
Yū Fujiki
as Shozo Ishikawa
Hideyo Amamoto
Michiyo Kogure
as Yoshiko Matsuyama
Daisuke Katō
as Kenkichi Matsuyama
Yin Wang
as Zhang Qianli
Kao Hsiang
as Zhang's maid
Ma Lik
Yōko Tsukasa
as Keiko Kimura
Rumiko Sasa
as Kiyoko Matsuyama
King Pai-Chien
Ken Uehara
as Ryuzo Kimura
Mie Hama
