Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me (1963)
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks set against the backdrop of the Roppongi district in Tokyo. Masaaki (Minegishi Toru) is the son of a prominent judge and a Law student at university. Chikage (Nakagawa Yuki) is a teenager from an underprivileged home. Both are desperately looking for an escape from their lives when they meet in Roppongi one night and fall in love. But coming from such different backgrounds, their happiness isn't assured.
Director:
Katsuki Iwauchi
Writer:
Yasuo Tanami
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Toru Minegishi as Ebina Masaaki |
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Yuki Nakagawa as Akutagawa Chikage |
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Kamatari Fujiwara as Detective Uchiyama |
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Masao Shimizu as |
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Keiko Awaji as |
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Tadao Takashima as |
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Yoshio Tsuchiya as |
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Tatsuo Matsumura as |
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Chōjirō Tōgin as |
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Naoya Kusakawa as |
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Shinpei Mitsui as |
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Machiko Naka as |
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Kazuya Oguri as |
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Toki Shiozawa as |
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Kazuko Ejima as |
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遠矢淳子 as |
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宮崎姫恵子 as |
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Toshiko Itō as |
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Nami Tamura as |
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Sumie Miyakawa as |
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Tamami Urayama as |
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吉本隆志 as |
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Hiroko Minami as |
| Art | Iwao Akune | Production Design |
| Production | Kajirō Yamamoto | Producer |
| Camera | Taiichi Kankura | Director of Photography |
| Production | Hisao Ichikawa | Producer |
| Writing | Yasuo Tanami | Screenplay |
| Directing | Katsuki Iwauchi | Director |
| Writing | Saho Sasazawa | Novel |
| Sound | Ikuma Dan | Original Music Composer |