Tenko (1981)

Directed by

Pennant Roberts

Genre

drama television series

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Length

3 seasons, 30 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

8.3 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of British, Australian and Dutch women are captured by Japanese forces after the fall of Singapore in 1942. They are held in a remote internment camp where they must survive brutal conditions and the loss of their previous lives.

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What happens

Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 22 October 1981 and 26 December 1985. The series dealt with the experiences of British, Australian and Dutch women who were captured after the Fall of Singapore in February 1942, after the Japanese invasion, and held in a fictional Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island in the Dutch East Indies in modern-day Indonesia between Singapore and Australia (the actual location of the island is not revealed in the series but it is assumed that the fictitious locations are set in south east Sumatra). Having been separated from their husbands, herded into makeshift holding camps and largely forgotten by the British War Office, the women had to learn to cope with appalling living conditions, malnutrition, disease, sexual violence and death. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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