"Abominable" is not Abominable at all
"Abominable" is an exciting story for children and a great step forward for positive Asian representation.
Star of Hong Kong
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.
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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.
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Genre:Romance
Written By:Ryōzō Kasahara
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Runtime:109 minutes
Studio:TOHO, Motion Picture & General Investment Co., Ltd.
Cast
Yasuki Chiba
Director
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
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