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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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
Akira TakaradaHiroshi Tanaka
Lucilla Yu MingWu Li Hung
Yōko TsukasaKeiko Kimura
Mitsuko KusabueYu Lan
Rumiko SasaKiyoko Matsuyama
Michiyo KogureYoshiko Matsuyama
Hiroshi KoizumiCast
Ken UeharaRyuzo Kimura
Yū FujikiShozo Ishikawa
Daisuke KatōKenkichi Matsuyama
King Pai-ChienCast
Yin WangZhang QianliExplore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Rokurô Nishigaki
- Director
- Yasuki Chiba
- Producer
- Sanezumi Fujimoto
- Original Music Composer
- Ryōichi Hattori
- Screenplay
- Toshiro Ide
- Producer
- Chung Kai-Man