Star of Hong Kong poster

Star of Hong Kong

Japanese · 香港の星

Directed by Yasuki Chiba

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.

Released
14 Jul 1962
Runtime
109 min
Also known as
香港之星, Star of Hongkong, Xiang Gang zhi xing
Country
Japan
Language
Japanese
Screenplay
Ryōzō Kasahara
Cinematography
Rokurô Nishigaki
Elsewhere
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