
About Love, Tokyo
1992-09-12 · 110 min · ★ 6.5
In Tokyo, a Chinese exchange student gets involved in rigged pachinko schemes and meets a Chinese girl raised in Japan. When they're caught cheating by a former yakuza now running a pachinko parlor, a tense triangle forms as money, power, and personal ties collide.
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- Directors
- Mitsuo Yanagimachi
- Production companies
- Unavailable
- Countries
- Japan
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Hiroshi FujiokaEndo
Guadalcanal TakaYoshida
Akira HamadaYakuza
Masayuki ImaiHitoshi
Tetsu WatanabeAccountant manager
Junko MiyashitaTeacher at Japanese language school
Jun TogawaAkiko
Koichi UedaSushi chef
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