NRUS
1981DramaWar & Politics1h 0m

Tenko

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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StatusEnded
Original Languageen
Network
BBC One

Keywords

prisonworld war iiprisoner of warsingaporejunglesoldierperiod dramahistoricalhistorical drama1940swarmodern history

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