Sandakan No. 8

Nan
2h 2m
1974
7.7 /10 (17)

A prostitute is a woman too.

Overview

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Country : Japan
Languages : 日本語
Released Date: 1974-11-02

Top Billed Cast

Komaki Kurihara

Keiko Mitani

Yoko Takahashi

Young Osaki

Kinuyo Tanaka

Old Osaki

Ken Tanaka

Hideo Takeuchi

Masayo Umezawa

Yukio

Takiko Mizunoe

Okiku

Eiko Mizuhara

Ofumi

Yoko Todo

Oyae

Yoko Nakagawa

Ohana

Eitarō Ozawa

Tarozo

Hideo Sunazuka

Yajima

Mitsuo Hamada

Yasukichi

Kaneko Iwasaki

Sato

Yukiko Yanagawa

Otake

Tomoko Jinbo

Moto

Takashi Ebata

Murata

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