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Sandakan No. 8

Original title: Sandakan hachiban shôkan: Bôkyô / Brothel No. 8

“A prostitute is a woman too.”

1974 · 2 h
Directed by Kei Kumai
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Cast

Komaki Kurihara Yôko Takahashi Kinuyo Tanaka Takiko Mizunoe Eiko Mizuhara Yoko Todo

Credits

Written by: Tomoko Yamazaki

Plot

A woman historian meets an old woman who was once a karayuki-san, a Japanese girl sold into prostitution abroad, and learns of the hardship of her life in Borneo.

Sinekatalog’s take

A moving, powerful social-historical drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (878 votes)
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