Star of Hong Kong (1962)
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The two meet again and fall in love in Hokkaido when Wang and her best friend Sugimoto Kanako are going on a holiday. Urged by her friend Zhang Yingming to concentrate on her studies, Wang remains ambivalent about the relationship, and is even more upset to realise that Sugimoto is in love with her fellow countryman. Feigning an engagement with Zhang, Wang initiates a break-up with Hasegawa and finds work in Singapore after graduation. Hasegawa learns the real cause of the break-up from Sugimoto in Hong Kong. A frenzy search finally leads to a reunion and a proposal in Kuala Lumpur. However, their love is doomed by a twist of fate as Wang must leave to see her desperately ill father in Hong Kong while Hasegawa has to leave for America to pursue his career.
Director:
Yasuki Chiba
Writer:
Ryōzō Kasahara
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Lucilla Yu Ming as Wang Xinglian |
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Akira Takarada as Hasegawa Toru |
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Yin Wang as Wang Chun-po |
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Reiko Dan as Sugimoto Kanako |
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Mitsuko Kusabue as Boss Sanae |
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Hiroshi Koizumi as HK office manager |
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Daisuke Katō as Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law |
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So Yamamura as Gentaro Sugimoto |
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Jimmy Lin as Zhang Yingming |
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Yū Fujiki as Hasegawa's colleague |
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Ma Lik as |
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Ma Hsiao-Nung as |
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Asami Kuji as Miss Nakano |
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Machiko Naka as Salesgirl of tailor's shop |
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Sadako Sawamura as Sugimoto Natsuko |
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Hiroshi Tachikawa as Honda (HK Branch staff) |
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Hiroshi Sekita as Machida (Tokyo Branch staff) |
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Haruko Tōgō as Toru's sister |
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Jun Tazaki as Dr. Matsumoto |
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Yuko Shibaki as Woman waiting at bar |
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Yutaka Nakayama as Man at bar in club |
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Yutaka Oka as Magazine photographer |
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Teruko Mita as Maid |
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Shōichi Hirose as Waiter |
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Midori Uchiyama as Teahouse waitress |
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Yano Yoko as Sugimoto's maid |
| Sound | Li Jun-qing | Music |
| Art | Iwao Akune | Art Direction |
| Sound | Hachiro Matsui | Music |
| Sound | Yanohisa Fumio | Recording Supervision |
| Crew | IMAGICA Corp. | Photoscience Manager |
| Directing | Yasuki Chiba | Director |
| Writing | Ryōzō Kasahara | Screenplay |
| Production | Sanezumi Fujimoto | Executive Producer |
| Art | Fei Ba-Yi | Art Direction |
| Camera | Rokurô Nishigaki | Director of Photography |
| Production | Chung Kai-Man | Executive Producer |