Star of Hong Kong

Star of Hong Kong

1962 · 109 min · ★ 8.0 · Romance

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.

Directed by Yasuki Chiba · Written by Ryōzō Kasahara

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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

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