Star of Hong Kong
Original title: 香港の星
Director
Yasuki Chiba
Screenplay
Ryōzō Kasahara
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.
Release
Jul 14, 1962
Budget
—
Country
Japan
Revenue
—
Cast
Lucilla Yu Ming
Wang Xinglian
Akira Takarada
Hasegawa Toru
Yin Wang
Wang Chun-po
Reiko Dan
Sugimoto Kanako
Mitsuko Kusabue
Boss Sanae
Hiroshi Koizumi
HK office manager
Daisuke Katō
Syuhei Toru's brother-in-law
So Yamamura
Gentaro Sugimoto
Jimmy Lin
Zhang Yingming
Yū Fujiki
Hasegawa's colleague
Ma Lik
Ma Hsiao-Nung
Machiko Naka
Salesgirl of tailor's shop
Sadako Sawamura
Sugimoto Natsuko
Hiroshi Tachikawa
Honda (HK Branch staff)
Haruko Tōgō
Toru's sister
Jun Tazaki
Dr. Matsumoto
Yutaka Nakayama
Man at bar in club
Teruko Mita
Maid
Shōichi Hirose
Waiter
Reviews
★★★★★
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