Jennifer Jason Leigh
Carol Heath
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Girls of the White Orchid is a 1983 television film directed by Jonathan Kaplan. It is also known as Death Ride to Osaka. [1][2] Premise. An American woman becomes a prostitute in Japan. Cast. Jennifer Jason Leigh - Carol. Thomas Byrd. Mako. Carolyn Seymour. Richard Narita. Soon-Tek Oh. Ann Jillian. Yvonne McCord. Philip Charles MacKenzie.
The yakuza force an American singer (Jennifer Jason Leigh), lured to a Tokyo nightclub, into white slavery. Watch Death Ride to Osaka with a subscription on Prime Video.
- Drama
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jonathan Kaplan
Death Ride to Osaka. 1983 · 1 hr 39 min. TV-14. Drama · Crime · Mystery · Thriller. A naíve and lonely waitress travels to Japan for work in a nightclub, where she soon discovers that she now is hostage to a Yakuza-run sex ring. Subtitles: English.
- Jonathan Kaplan
- January 1, 1983
- 98 min
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan. 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.
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- Hill/Mandelker Films, NBC
- Jonathan Kaplan
An aspiring young singer naively takes a job in a Tokyo nightspot and is drawn into a white slavery ring in which the entertainers are forced into prostitution by the Yakuza, Japan's equivalent of the syndicate. This TV version of what long was a B-movie staple of an earlier generation ran...
Death Ride to Osaka (4K Restored) In Los Angeles, naïve and lonely burger waitress Carol Heath, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, finds an advertisement in the newspaper that promotes a job opportunity in Tokyo.
Based on true events in the life of actor Tom Allard, whose girlfriend answered an advertisement for American singers to entertain in Japan and found herself trapped in a prostitution-slavery ring operated by the yakuza.
