Girls of the White Orchid (1983)
Anno di uscita: 1983
Nazione: United States
Alternative Title: Crime em Osaka, Escravas Brancas, Império da Morte, Operation Osaka, Kuolemankyyti Osakaan
Regista: Jonathan Kaplan
Writer: Carole Raschella, Michael Raschella, Tom Allard
Produzione & Genere
Produttore: Producer: Claude Binyon Jr.
Executive Producer: Leonard Hill, Philip Mandelker
Società: Hill/Mandelker Films, NBC
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, Tv Movie
Budget: N/A
Premi & Simili
Premi: N/A
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Parole chiave
Parole chiave: american embassy, aspiring singer, passport, prostitution, tokyo, japan, yakuza
Storia
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.
Riassunto
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.
