Tenko

– Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dr..

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TVSeries
Rating:
8.70 / 10
Duration:
50 Minutes
Release Year:
1981
Tenko (1981)

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

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Release Date:

22 Oct 1981

Language:

English, Japanese

Writer:

Lavinia Warner

Main Actors:

Ann Bell, Stephanie Cole, Claire Oberman, Emily Bolton

Plot:

Three 10x55min series. The first series set in 1941, a group of English and Australian women from Singapore are shipwrecked while they try to escape the Japanese invasion. The survivors are captured and put in a prison camp. They and their Dutch companions must all make drastic adjustments to and discoveries about their lives. In the second series, the group is moved to a new camp with a completely new pecking order and a particularly vicious camp leader. At the beginning of the third series, the prisoners are liberated and must re-adjust themselves to live in Singapore, in the aftermath of the war.

Awards:

1 win & 7 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
8.7/10