Tenko (1981)
Tenko (1981)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
Ann Bell
Marion Jefferson
Stephanie Cole
Dr. Beatrice Mason
Claire Oberman
Kate Norris
Emily Bolton
Christina Campbell
Elizabeth Chambers
Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer
Veronica Roberts
Dorothy Bennett
James Harpham
Original Music Composer
Patricia Lawrence
Sister Ulrica
Jean Anderson
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook
Jeananne Crowley
Nellie Keene
Stephanie Beacham
Rose Millar
Burt Kwouk
Major Yamauchi
Lavinia Warner
Writer
Takashi Kawahara
Shinya
Jeremy Summers
Director
Michael Owen Morris
Director
Pennant Roberts
Director
David Askey
Director
David Tucker
Director
David Tucker
Director
Jim Stephens
Editorial Services
Kate Evans
Editor
Derek Orman
Editor
Clare Douglas
Editor
Anne Valery
Writer
Jill Hyem
Writer
Paul Wheeler
Writer
Takahiro Oba
Kasaki / Shigawo
Maggie Ford
Joy Kettlewell
Nigel Harman
Timmy
Edmund Pegge
Bernard Webster
Ivor Danvers
Jack Armstrong
Daniel Hill
Tom Redburn
Jeff Hardy
Simon Treves
Ric Young
Father Lim
Gregory de Polnay
Johnny Saunders
Andrew Sharp
Harry Milne
David Gooderson
Major Sims
Colin Dunn
Corporal Jackson
Michael Dyerball
Studio Manager
Betsan Jones
Nun
Ronald Eng
Dolah
Pauline Peters
Minah
Ann Queensberry
Judith Bowen
Chua Kah Joo
Jo
Maya Woolfe
Gerda
Susan Leong
Lia
Pamela Merrick
Polly Huntley
Jennifer Hill
Lily Jenkins
Sabu Kimura
Lt. Nakamura / Tanaka
Lindsay Ingram
Cynthia James
Athene Fielding
Madge Pritchard
Rosemary Martin
Verna Johnson
Eiji Kusuhara
Lt. Sato / Captain Sato
Anna Lindup
Daisy Robertson
Philippa Urquhart
Lillian Cartland
Josephine Welcome
Miss Hasan
Jonathan Newth
Brigadier Clifford Jefferson / Clifford Jefferson
Shelagh Wilcocks
Betty
Kenji Ando
Sergeant
Kerry Tovey
Suzy
Nicolas Corry
Bobby Cartland
Beryl Cooke
Mrs. Vance
Carolle Rousseau
Natalie Trier / Dr. Natalie Trier
Kristopher Kum
General Shimojo
Yutaka Ohira
Mito
Oliver Ford Davies
Priest
Barbara Yu Ling
May
Jimmy Fung
Native
Cindy Shelley
Alice Courtenay
Edna Doré
Edna
Dawn Keeler
Joan
Peter Silverleaf
Yukio
Paul Copley
POW
John Williamson
Captain Brooks
Stephen Oxley
Lieutenant Curtis
Elspet Gray
Phyllis Bristow
Michael Lees
Colonel Jackson
Stephen Gordon
Colonel Smithers
Mona Bruce
Doctor
Eliza Buckingham
Mrs. Harris
Michael Loney
Journalist
Mellan Mitchell
Bank Clerk
Lim Kay Tong
Soldier
Damien Thomas
Jake Haulter
Preston Lockwood
Stephen Wentworth
Helen Blatch
Mrs. Briggs
Albert Moses
Dr. Singh
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 22, 1981
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes30
Running Time1h
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsDorset, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 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, violence and death.