Sandakan No. 8 is Japanese director Kumai Kei’s best-known work and it tells the moving story of the life of a karayuki-san (juvenile prostitute) in the Japanese colonies of Southeast Asia in the early twentieth century. Told through flashbacks and recollections of an old woman named Saki, the film is a thoughtful, uncompromising and compassionate account of the hardships that thousands of young Japanese girls suffered. In her last film, Tanaka Kinuyo received the prestigious Silver Bear for best actress at the Berlin Film Festival for her performance as a former "Karayuki-san" (women coerced into working as prostitutes in Southeast Asian during the Japanese occupation). One of the few Japanese films ever to deal with this explosive, and still controversial, legacy from WWII.

SCREENING · 12 Aug Tue 7.30pm | Gallery Theatre National Museum of Singapore

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Sandakan No. 8
1974, Japan, 121 min, 16 mm, M18
Directed by Kumai Kei