A Night in Hong Kong

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

July 1, 1961

Original language

Chinese

Spoken languages

English, Chinese, Japanese

Countries

Japan, Hong Kong

Production

TOHO,Ltd.,Motion Picture & General Investment Co.,Motion Picture & General Investment Co., Ltd.

Cast

Hiroshi Koizumi,Ma Lik,Akira Takarada,King Pai-Chien,Mie Hama,Yin Wang,Yū Fujiki,Kang Pak King,Yōko Tsukasa,Hideyo Amamotoand 8 more

Director

Yasuki Chiba

Writer

Toshiro Ide

Producer

Sanezumi Fujimoto,Chung Kai-Man

Cinematography

Rokurô Nishigaki

Music

Ryōichi Hattori

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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