Tenko (1981)★ 8.5/10
- Drama
- History
- War
Directed by: Jeremy Summers, David Askey, Pennant Roberts, David Tucker, Michael Owen Morris
Written by: Lavinia Warner, Jill Hyem, Anne Valery, Paul Wheeler
After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.
- Original title
- Tenko
- Storyline
- 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.
- Rating
- 8.5 / 10 · 992
- Companies
- British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC)
- Release dates
- AU October 22, 1981
- GB October 22, 1981