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Tenko
1981–1984 · 3 seasons, 30 episodes · 55m episodes · Drama, War & Politics · BBC One · Australia, United Kingdom · Rated 6 (DE)
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
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