Movielogr
A Night in Hong Kong (1961)
Directed by Yasuki Chiba
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.
Length 119 minutes
Actors
Akira Takarada | Lucilla Yu Ming | Yôko Tsukasa | Mitsuko Kusabue | Rumiko Sasa | Michiyo Kogure | Hiroshi Koizumi | Ken Uehara | Yû Fujiki | Daisuke Katô | King Pai-chien | Wang Yin | Hideyo Amamoto | Mie Hama | Kang Pak King | Ma Ree | Kao Hsiang | Ma Lik