Chinese poster of Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo.
Movie (1974)
Japanese title: サンダカン八番娼館 望郷
Chinese title: 望乡
Worldwide title: Brothel No. 8
English (US) title: Sandakan 8
Seriban title: Javna kuca br. 8
Hungarian title: Szandakan 8
Starring:
Komaki Kurihara (Keiko Mitani)
Kinuyo Tanaka (Saki Yamakawa, as an old woman)
Yoko Takahashi (Saki Yamakawa, as a young woman)
Takiko Mizunoe (Kiku)
A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8.
Boeing 707-320C[]
The movie opens with Kurihara's character landing at Kota Kinabalu Airport in a Boeing 707 of Cathay Pacific Airways.
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