
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.

Andy Lau
Ben Li

Cherie Chung Cho-Hung
Meng Tieh-Lan

Junichi Ishida
Hideyuki Asano

Kyôko Kishida
Old geisha Miyako (cameo)

Junko Takazawa
Yuriko

Yasuaki Kurata
Ishikawa (cameo)

Tou Tsung-hua
Chang Chih

Sun Peng
Ming
Law Fei-Yu
Harada
Tsang Wai-Fai
Mei Mei
San Akiyama
Hiroichi Chiba

Noor
Noor

Yoshiko & Yuriko
Yoshiko & Yuriko

Girls of the Night
Girls of the Night

The War Game
The War Game

Paris Seen By... 20 Years After
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After

Squandered Sunday
Squandered Sunday

The Secret Life of Words
The Secret Life of Words

My Life Without Me
My Life Without Me
The Island
The Island

Forever a Woman
Forever a Woman

The Two of Them
The Two of Them

Open Hearts
Open Hearts