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Tenko is a television drama series co-produced by the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), which was broadcast between 1981 and 1985.
Tenko is a TV series that follows the lives of women from Singapore who are captured and interned by the Japanese during the war. The title comes from the Japanese word for roll-call, a daily ritual of humiliation and control.
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Jan 2, 2022 · Tenko was a hit TV drama in the 1980s, and focused on the experiences of British, Australian, and Dutch women who were captured after the fall of Singapore in 1942, after the invasion of Japanese troops, and held in a Japanese internment camp.
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Dec 13, 2020 · In a career of extremes, Tenko was Kwouk’s big break into “serious” television drama, and served to seal his reputation as a great character actor. After Tenko, he made guest appearances in TV staples such as Howards Way, Boon, Silent Witness and many more.
Feb 7, 2024 · 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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Tenko is a haunting drama about the gruelling experience of women taken prisoner by the Japanese in WWII. Watch the first episode of series 1 online with ITVX Premium.
Tenko is a TV show that depicts the ordeal of British women captured by the Japanese in Singapore during World War II. It is based on real-life stories and spans three seasons from 1981 to 1984.
