Song of the White Orchid

Song of the White Orchid (1939)

Drama

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.

Director: Kunio Watanabe

Casts

	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 Kato as
	Nijiko Kiyokawa as
	Yōyō Kojima as
	Hiroaki Kurahashi as
	Kokuten Kōdō as
	Kō 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
	Kenichiro Ubukata as
	Unpei Yokoyama as

Crew