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
Stars: Akira Takarada, Lucilla Yu Ming, Yōko Tsukasa, Mitsuko Kusabue, Rumiko Sasa, Michiyo Kogure
Crew: Sung Kei (Production Manager), Rokurô Nishigaki (Director of Photography), Yasuki Chiba (Director), Toshirō Ide (Writer), Chung Kai-Man (Producer), Sanezumi Fujimoto (Producer)
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Language: English, 普通话, 日本語
Studio: TOHO, Motion Picture & General Investment Co., Ltd.
Runtime: 119 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jul 01, 1961
IMDb: 10
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