A Night in Hong Kong (1961)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Akira Takarada

Hiroshi Tanaka

Lucilla Yu Ming

Wu Li Hung

Yōko Tsukasa

Keiko Kimura

Mitsuko Kusabue

Yu Lan

Rumiko Sasa

Kiyoko Matsuyama

Michiyo Kogure

Yoshiko Matsuyama

Hiroshi Koizumi

Ken Uehara

Ryuzo Kimura

Yū Fujiki

Shozo Ishikawa

Daisuke Katō

Kenkichi Matsuyama

King Pai-Chien

Yin Wang

Zhang Qianli

Director & Crew

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