# Sandakan No. 8 (1974)

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**Original title**: *サンダカン八番娼館　望郷*
**Runtime**: 122 min
**Genres**: Drama, History
**Directed by**: Kei Kumai
**Written by**: Sakae Hirosawa, Kei Kumai
**Starring**: Komaki Kurihara, Yoko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Ken Tanaka, Masayo Umezawa, Takiko Mizunoe

> *A prostitute is a woman too.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Netflix meets post-war war crime dockumentary meets a toothless great-aunt dropping bad news. A cub reporter digs up a geriatric ex-comfort woman who calmly names the Japanese brothel where she was trafficked. The old woman’s matter-of-fact voice carries the whole film and the era’s quiet dread.

**Mood tags**: foreign-gem, dread, slow-burn

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