Watch: サンダカン八番娼館 望郷 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8..
Plot: A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.
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Fantastic Movie
This was the movie I saw on my first adult date. I was so encompassed by the story and cinematography that I soon forgot I was reading subtitles.While the story may seem slow at first once the depiction of another society so far removed in time and place from our own gives the viewer a new look on the what shaped the lifestyle of the Japanese culture
You cannot help but be swept up in the crisis of the time depicted.
We tend to forget the world was not always as it is today, especially for us jaded Americans.
Elwin
Sad story
A female journalist researches the forced prostitution of Japanese women in the 1920s. She interviews Osaki, an old lady living with several cats in a shack at the edge of town. She tells the story in flashbacks, beginning with her trying to help her poor family by getting a job as a maid at a hotel. She works cleaning the rooms for two years and is then is coerced by the owner into becoming a hooker against her will.Sandakan number eight turns out to be one the many brothels in Malaysia which used slave labor for years, including World War II, as a popular resting point for soldiers from around the world. The movie is based on a non fiction book of the same name which was controversial in Japan, as the women involved were shunned by society.
Osaki’s tale is a sad and common one that needs to told. Sandakan 8 is compelling and well made.
Original Language ja
Runtime 2 hr (120 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated N/A
Genre Drama, History, War
Director Kei Kumai
Writer Tomoko Yamazaki, Sakae Hirosawa, Kei Kumai
Actors Komaki Kurihara, Yôko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka
Country Japan
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 7 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Kinuta Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
Film Length 3,325 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process CinemaScope
Printed Film Format 35 mm