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Tenko (1981) After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are

Tenko (1981)

After the Japanese invasion of Singapore in February 1942, a group of British, Dutch and Australian women are held in a Japanese internment camp on a Japanese-occupied island between Singapore and Australia.

Cast:
Marion Jefferson: Ann Bell
Dr. Beatrice Mason: Stephanie Cole
Kate Norris: Claire Oberman
Christina Campbell: Emily Bolton
Mrs. Domenica Van Meyer: Elizabeth Chambers
Dorothy Bennett: Veronica Roberts
Sister Ulrica: Patricia Lawrence
Lady Jocelyn 'Joss' Holbrook: Jean Anderson
Rose Millar: Stephanie Beacham
Major Yamauchi: Burt Kwouk
Lt. Sato: Eiji Kusuhara
Shinya: Takashi Kawahara
Kasaki: Takahiro Oba
Blanche Simmons: Louise Jameson
Sally Markham: Joanna Hole
Maggie Thorpe: Lizzie Mickery
Nellie Keene: Jeananne Crowley
Alice Courtenay: Cindy Shelley
Debbie Bowen: Karin Foley
Verna Johnson: Rosemary Martin
Daisy Robertson: Anna Lindup
Miss Hasan: Josephine Welcome
Suzy: Kerry Tovey
Sylvia Ashburton: Renée Asherson
Brigadier Clifford Jefferson: Jonathan Newth
Phyllis Bristow: Elspet Gray
Jake Haulter: Damien Thomas
Lt. Nakamura: Sabu Kimura
Lillian Cartland: Philippa Urquhart
Bobby Cartland: Nicolas Corry
Judith Bowen: Ann Queensberry
Stephen Wentworth: Preston Lockwood
Natalie Trier: Carolle Rousseau
Gerda: Maya Woolfe
Colonel Smithers: Stephen Gordon
May: Barbara Yu Ling
Dolah: Ronald Eng
Bernard Webster: Edmund Pegge
Colonel Jackson: Michael Lees
Vicky Armstrong: Wendy Williams
Jack Armstrong: Ivor Danvers
Tom Redburn: Daniel Hill
Simon Treves: Jeffrey Hardy
Edna: Edna Doré
Madge Pritchard: Athene Fielding
Father Lim: Ric Young
Cynthia James: Lindsay Ingram
Priest: Oliver Ford Davies
Sergeant: Kenji Ando
Minah: Pauline Peters
Harry Alderston-Bennett: Nigel Greaves
Chinese Policeman: Kay Tong Lim
Lily Jenkins: Jennifer Hill
Betty: Shelagh Wilcocks
P.O.W.: Paul Copley
Doctor: Mona Bruce
Brian Thomas: Jeremy Gittins
Nun: Betsan Jones
Hospital Administrator: John Graham
Mrs. Harris: Eliza Buckingham
Joan: Dawn Keeler
Mrs. Fraser: Anne Ridler
Johnny Saunders: Gregory de Polnay
Mrs. Vance: Beryl Cooke
Mr. Ling: Robert Lee
Journalist: Michael Loney
Mrs. Briggs: Helen Blatch
Yukio: Peter Silverleaf
Captain Brooks: John Williamson
Harry Milne: Andrew Sharp
Mrs. Johnson: Isobil Nisbet
Timmy: Nigel Harman
Jim: Peter Benson
Dr. Singh: Albert Moses
Cherry: Johanna Hargreaves
Reverend Mother: Julia McCarthy
Lieutenant Curtis: Stephen Oxley
Bank Clerk: Mellan Mitchell
Sister Pickering: Sonia Woolley
Major Sims: David Gooderson
Polly Huntley: Pamela Merrick
Mito: Yutaka Ohira
Jane: Julia Verdin
Enid Trotter: Jane Hayward
Shipping Clerk: Mike Elles
Corporal Jackson: Colin Dunn
Vicar: James Walker
Sailor: Alan Mock
Hotel Manager: Roy Herrick
Studio Manager: Michael Dyerball
General Shimojo: Kristopher Kum
Jo: Chua Kah Joo
Mr. Wilson: Charles Morgan
Mrs. Wilson: Sylvia Marriott
Lia: Susan Leong
Japanese Officer: Michael Hua
Ship's Captain: David Henry
First Petty Officer: Edward Langdon
Second Petty Officer: Stuart Blake
Joy Kettlewell: Maggie Ford
Native Man: Jimmy Fung
Milly: Isabel Lansdale
Corporal: Kenneth MacDonald
Policeman: John Rowe
Bank Teller: Rangit Nakara
Female Prisoner of War 1981: Annet Peters
Raffles Barman: Vincent Wong

Written by: Lavinia Warner

Release date: 22 Oct 1981
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