Tenko

Original title: Tenko

60 minutes • 1981 - 1984 • 3 seasons • 30 episodes • 8.1 Score

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.

Lavinia Warner

Creator

Drama

War & Politics

Backdrops