A Night in Hong Kong

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.

Genre:

Romance

Duration:

119 min

Cast:

Akira Takarada, Lucilla Yu Ming, Yōko Tsukasa

Quality:

HD

Director:

Yasuki Chiba

Release:

1961

Country:

Japan, Hong Kong SAR China

Rating:

10.0