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About Love, Tokyo

About Love, Tokyo

1992•1h 50m•6.3/10
DramaRomance

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6.3/10(3)

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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Language

JA

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Asuka Okasaka

Airin

Hiroshi Fujioka

Hiroshi Fujioka

Endo

Guan Xiaotong

Zeng Chun Hui

Guadalcanal Taka

Guadalcanal Taka

Yoshida

Akira Hamada

Akira Hamada

Yakuza

Masayuki Imai

Masayuki Imai

Hitoshi

Tetsu Watanabe

Tetsu Watanabe

Accountant manager

Junko Miyashita

Junko Miyashita

Teacher at Japanese language school

Jun Togawa

Jun Togawa

Akiko

Koichi Ueda

Koichi Ueda

Sushi chef

Qian Bo

Qian Bo

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