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Girls of the White Orchid(1983)
Status: Released
Date: 1983-11-28
49%
10 Votes
Time: 1h 36m
Overview:
In Los Angeles, naive and lonely waitress and aspirant singer Carol finds an advertisement for a job opportunity in Tokyo. Traveling to Japan to work at the White Orchid nightclub, 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.
Languages: English, Japanese.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies: 
Hill/Mandelker Films
Movie: Girls of the White Orchid
Top 10 Billed Cast
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Carol Heath
Thomas Byrd
Don Potter
Mako
Mori
Carolyn Seymour
Madame Mori
Richard Narita
Shiro
Soon-Tek Oh
Hatanaka
Ann Jillian
Marilyn
Philip Charles MacKenzie
Cavanaugh
Leslie Wing
Lisa
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