Introduction

Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 1984.

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 between Singapore and Australia. 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.

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Outline

Two years have passed and the women are in another camp, this one in the site of a former prison. Times have been hard and many have died – including Blanche, Verna, Daisy and even little Suzy.

Tenko Series

You can find a full index and overview of Tenko here.

Production & Filming Details

• Release Date: 07 October 1984.
• Running time: 50 minutes.
• Rating: 12-15.
• Country: UK.
• Language: English.

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