Girls of the White Orchid (1983)
Año de lanzamiento: 1983
Nación: United States
Alternative Title: Crime em Osaka, Escravas Brancas, Império da Morte, Operation Osaka, Kuolemankyyti Osakaan, Illusions perdues, Sulle orme del dragone, Śmiertelny rajd do Osaki, Osaka - Corrida Fatal, La muerte conduce a Osaka, Death Ride to Osaka
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella, Tom Allard
Producción & Género
Productor: Producer: Claude Binyon Jr.
Executive Producer: Leonard Hill, Philip Mandelker
Compañías: Hill/Mandelker Films, NBC
Género: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Tv Movie
Budget: N/A
Premios & Similares
Premios: N/A
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Palabras clave
Palabras clave: american embassy, aspiring singer, passport, prostitution, tokyo, japan, yakuza
Historia
In Los Angeles, lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol Heath finds an advertisement for a job opportunity at a nightclub in Tokyo. She travels to Japan where she discovers that the White Orchid nightclub is a front for prostitution run by the Yakuza. Stranded without money or her passport, Carol is protected by Shiro but pressured by Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to comply with clients' propositions. Meanwhile, back in LA, Carol's former boyfriend searches for her.
Resumen
Girls of the White Orchid (1983) is a thriller-drama film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. The story follows American aspirant singer Carol Heath who, lured by a job opportunity advertisement, travels to Tokyo to work at the White Orchid nightclub. However, she soon finds herself ensnared in the club's prostitution scheme controlled by the Yakuza. The film explores themes of human trafficking, cultural displacement, and survival against odds, set against the backdrop of Tokyo's seedy underbelly.
