Song of the White Orchid was a co-production of Toho and Mantetsu, the railway that served the colonial region of Manchuria, and the first film in the Kazuo Hasegawa/Shirley Yamaguchi (Ri Koran) “Continental Trilogy.” Handsome Hasegawa (representing Japan) runs up against an impertinent Yamaguchi (representing the continent); not surprisingly, in the course of the film the woman comes around and realizes the benevolent intentions of the Japanese. In Song of the White Orchid Yamaguchi leaves Hasegawa, who plays an expatriate working for the railway, because of a misunderstanding. She joins a communist guerilla group plotting to blow up the Manchurian railway. Learning of the subterfuge that led to the misunderstanding, she renews her faith in Hasegawa—and by extension Japan—and tries to undermine the plot.
Yoshiko Yamaguchi
Kazuo Hasegawa
Kokichi Matsumura
Noboru Kiritachi
Hisako Yamane
Sadao Maruyama
Yoshio Kosugi
Etchan
Isamu Eto
Susumu Fujita
Kinji Fujiwa
Fumio Hara
Yoshiko Katô
Nijiko Kiyokawa
Yōyō Kojima
Hiroaki Kurahashi
Kokuten Kōdō
Ko Mihashi
Hideo Nakamura
Kenho Nakamura
Hideo Saito
Keiji Sakakida
Rikie Sanjō
Eitarō Shindō
Sanpei Tani
Katsumi Tezuka
Ken'ichirō Ubukata
Unpei Yokoyama
Director
Kunio Watanabe
Story
Masao Kume
Writer
Chiio Kimura
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Original Language:
Japanese
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