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1974 Japanese Drama

Oldie Movie DVD Digitally Mastered from Archival Prints

 

《望鄉》"Sandakan No.8"

Nominated for the 1975 Oscar Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Starring: 栗原小卷，田中絹代 (Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka)

A young female journalist (Komaki Kurihara) is researching an article on the history of Japanese women who were forced to work as prostitutes in Asian brothels during the early 20th century. She locates Osaki (Kinuyo Tanaka), an elderly woman who lives with a number of cats in a shack in a remote village. Osaki agrees to tell her life story, and the film goes into flashback to the early 1920s. A young Osaki (Yoko Takashi), in an attempt to raise money for her poor family, takes a job as a maid in British Borneo (today’s Malaysia) at what she believes to be a hotel. The establishment is actually a brothel called Sandakan 8. Osaki works for two years as a maid, but is forced by the brothel’s owners to become a prostitute. Osaki stays at Sandakan 8 until World War II, and in that period she never experiences genuine affection outside of a brief romance with a poor farmer who abandons her when he makes his fortune. With the coming of war, Osaki is able to return to Japan, but because of her experiences at Sandakan 8 she is shunned and treated like a pariah...

 

Digital Repaired High Quality DVD

Color, Japanese Language, 121 min.

with removable Chinese sub-titles

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