Girls of the White Orchid 1983

Title: Girls of the White Orchid
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Languages: English
Genres: Crime, Drama,
Runtime: 1:38:00 Hour
Cast: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ann Jillian, Thomas Byrd
Directors: Jonathan Kaplan
Rating: 5.1 (429 Votes)
Year: 1983
Summary: In Los Angeles, the naive and lonely burger waitress and aspirant singer Carol Heath finds an advertisement in the newspaper with a job opportunity in Tokyo. She has a meeting with the agents, the American Cavanaugh and the Japanese Shiro ; she signs the contract in English and Japanese and travels to Japan to work at the White Orchid night-club. She shares a hotel room with a dancer and sooner she discovers the scheme of prostitution in the club that belongs to Yakuza. Alone, without money and her passport, she is protected by Shiro, but pressed by the managers Madame Mori and her husband Hatanaka to be receptive to client's proposals. Meanwhile her former boyfriend returns to LA and seeks her out.