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A Night in Hong Kong

1961 1 hour 59 minutes
63/100

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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.

Released

1st July 1961

65 years ago

Runtime

1 hour 59 minutes

Finishes at 10:18pm

Ratings and awards

  • IMDB Logo

    6.3/10

  • FilmFlow Logo

    63%

Directed by

Yasuki Chiba

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Written by

Toshirō Ide

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