A Night in Hong Kong (1961)

Name: A Night in Hong Kong
Genre: Romance
Released: 1961-12-22
Duration: 1 hr 59 min
Cast: Akira Takarada, Lucilla Yu Ming, Yōko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Rumiko Sasa

Movie

StarringAkira TakaradaLucilla Yu MingYōko Tsukasa

DirectorYasuki Chiba

NR 1 hr 59 minDec 22nd, 1961Romance

Plot

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.

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