Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid (1939)


  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1939-11-30
  • Runtime: 1h 42min
  • Language: 日本語
  • Production Company: Manchukuo Film Association
  • Production Country: Japan
  • Director: Kunio Watanabe

Summary

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.

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  • Yoshiko Yamaguchi

    as
  • Kazuo Hasegawa

    as Kokichi Matsumura
  • Noboru Kiritachi

    as
  • Hisako Yamane

    as
  • Sadao Maruyama

    as
  • Yoshio Kosugi

    as
  • Etchan

    as
  • Isamu Eto

    as
  • Susumu Fujita

    as
  • Kinji Fujiwa

    as
  • Fumio Hara

    as
  • Yoshiko Katô

    as
  • Nijiko Kiyokawa

    as
  • Yōyō Kojima

    as
  • Hiroaki Kurahashi

    as
  • Kokuten Kōdō

    as
  • Ko Mihashi

    as
  • Hideo Nakamura

    as
  • Kenho Nakamura

    as
  • Hideo Saito

    as
  • Keiji Sakakida

    as
  • Rikie Sanjō

    as
  • Eitarō Shindō

    as
  • Sanpei Tani

    as
  • Katsumi Tezuka

    as
  • Ken'ichirō Ubukata

    as
  • Unpei Yokoyama

    as
Sound Tadashi Hattori Music
Editing Kôichi Iwashita Editor
Lighting Kuichirô Kishida Lighting Technician
Production Nobuyoshi Morita Producer
Crew Tatsuo Tomonari Cinematography
Art Takeo Kita Art Direction
Writing Chiio Kimura Writer
Directing Kunio Watanabe Director
Writing Masao Kume Story

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