Sandakan No. 8
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- Movie: Sandakan No. 8
- Romaji: Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo
- Japanese: サンダカン八番娼館 望郷
- Director: Kei Kumai
- Writer: Tomoko Yamazaki (novel), Sakae Hirosawa, Kei Kumai
- Producer: Masayuki Sato, Hideyuki Shiino
- Cinematographer: Mitsuji Kanau
- Release Date: November 2, 1974
- Runtime: 121 min.
- Language: Japanese
- Country: Japan
Plot
A feamale historian named Keiko vistis Amakusa, Kyushu, Japan's westermost island, to studey the lives of Juvenile prostitutes known as karayuki-san who were sent to the colonies in Southeast Asia in the early Twentieth Century. A few returned home rich, but most of them died miserably. Keiko eventually finds an old woman named Saki, who tells Keiko about herself the story of Karayuki - San ….
Notes
- Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- Based on the 1972 book "Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class" by Tomoko Yamazaki .
Cast
- Takashi Ebata - Murata
- Mitsuo Hamada - Yasukichi
- Kaneko Iwasaki - Sato
- Tomoko Jinbo - Moto
- Shunsuke Kariya
- Teruko Kishi - Nami
- Komaki Kurihara - Keiko Mitani
- Mariko Kuzumi
- Junko Matsumoto
- Eiko Mizuhara - Ofumi
- Takiko Mizunoe - Okiku
- Yoko Nakagawa - Ohana
- Ichiro Nakaya - Yamamoto
- Mariko Nonaka - Kiyo
- Eitaro Ozawa - Tarozo
- Kishino Sayuri - Haru
- Kinzo Shin - Sanetaka Ichijo
- Kin Sugai - Woman came back from Penang
- Hideo Sunazuka - Yajima
- Yoko Takahashi - Osaki as a young woman
- Chigusa Takayama - Tomi
- Ken Tanaka - Hideo Takeuchi
- Kinuyo Tanaka - Osaki Yamakawa, as an old woman
- Yoko Todo - Oyae
- Masayo Umezawa - Yukiyo
- Takako Yamada - Old woman
- Hatsuo Yamaya - Ittchan
- Yukiko Yanagawa - Otake
