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  1. 3 days ago · Is Sandakan No. 8 streaming? Find out where to watch online amongst 45+ services including Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video.

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  2. A young Osaki (Yoko Takashi) is sold by her poverty-stricken family into indentured servitude as a maid in Sandakan, British North Borneo (today’s Sabah, Malaysia), at what she believes to be a hotel. At parting, Osaki's distraught and tragic mother gives her a kimono that she has woven by hand the night before her daughter's departure.

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    Movie:Sandakan No. 8
    Romaji:Sandakan hachibanshokan bohkyo
    Japanese:サンダカン八番娼館 望郷
    Director: Kei Kumai

    A feamale historian named Keiko vistis Amakusa, Kyushu, Japan's westermost island, to studey the lives of Juvenile prostitutes known as karayuki-san who were sent to the colonies in Southeast Asia in the early Twentieth Century. A few returned home rich, but most of them died miserably. Keiko eventually finds an old woman named Saki, who tells Keik...

    Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
    Based on the 1972 book "Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class" by Tomoko Yamazaki .
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  4. Apr 17, 2021 · Heart-wrenching tale behind Sandakan Brothel No 8 The book tells the story of the karayuki-san, who were poor rural Japanese women sold into overseas prostitution between the 1860s and 1930s...

  5. Sep 3, 2019 · Two women forge an unexpected bond while exposing a persistent strain of patriarchal trauma in Kumai's painful examination of empire and exploitation.

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  7. Apr 17, 2021 · Heart-wrenching tale behind Sandakan Brothel No 8 | FMT. The book tells the story of the karayuki-san, who were poor rural Japanese women sold into overseas prostitution between the 1860s and...

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