Sandakan No. 8

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Kumai, KeiKei Kumai

Credits: Cast: Komaki Kurihara, Kinuyo Tanaka, Yoko Takahashi

Description: A young Osaki (Yoko Takashi) is sold by her poverty-stricken family into indentured servitude as a maid in Sandakan, British North Borneo (today’s Sabah, Malaysia) The film goes into flashback to the early 1920s. Osaki is sold as a young girl, but is forced by the brothel's owners to become a prostitute. At the end of World War II she is shunned and treated like a pariah, even by her son.

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