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Tenko
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.
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Episode 1
Episode #3.1
It is now July 1945 and several prisoners, Blanche and Verna among them, have died of the illness sweeping through the camp. Nonetheless, the women mark Alice Courtenay's seventeenth birthday with biscuits donated by Yamauchi until Sato stops the celebrations. As Allied planes drop propaganda leaflets, there is a concern that the Japanese, facing defeat, will shoot the women, who prepare to defend themselves. They arm themselves with stones, only to hear from Yamauchi that the Japanese have surrendered and the war is over.
Awards
- 1982 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Video Lighting - nominated
- 1985 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Drama Series/Serial - nominated
- 1985 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Video Lighting - nominated
- 1985 - BAFTA TV Award - Best Make Up - nominated
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