The first season, set in 194142, charts the drama from the women being captured and sent to live in squalor and depravation. They meet for tea, and catch up on old times and old friends. Those who survived the war were reunited for an incongruous oneoff murder mystery, set in 1950, entitled tenko reunion 1985. Marion and clifford have divorced, and their son is at oxford. Marion is shopping in london in 1950 when she bumps into dorothy in the street. In 1950, five years after their release from internment, the women return to singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve them in treachery and murder. Five years after the end of the war, a chance encounter between marion and dorothy prompts marion to try and organise a. See the full list of tenko reunion cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Five years after their release from the camp, the women return to singapore for a reunion. Given the outstanding quality of this reunion special it is something of a mystery that this final featurelength slice of tenko does not enjoy a better critical reputation. Tenko biography tenko is a japanese musician who has been performing improvised music for the past thirty years. We briefly see everyone in their current lives, and we also see some of the communist unrest in the singapore region. This state of affairs is even more curious when one considers just how many inferior and illconceived specials and spinoffs have positively littered the tv schedules over the years.
Christmas on bbc1 1985 tenko reunion trailer duration. A kitsune fox spirit who has aged 1,000 years becomes a tenko, a ninetailed fox spirit. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably welloff expats living in singapore, as they are captured by the japanese during world war ii. Slam tutto per una ragazza 2016 slam tutto per una ragazza 2016. Tenko the complete riveting 3series epic drama get each series individually or get all three together and save. Based on reallife experiences, tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed bbc dramas of the early 1980s. The third series of tenko wrapped in october 1984 and went on to huge success but the cast were unaware that behind the scenes lavinia warner was already putting together a pitch for a potential fourth and fifth series that would eventually become the featurelength tenko reunion special transmitted christmas 1985.
In 1981 she encountered new music in new york, and started an improvising voice duo the honeymoons in japan. Tenko reunion tv movie 1985 tenko reunion tv movie. Still attracting new fans, tenko is as fresh, engaging and relevant today as it was back in the 80s. After reaching 1,000 years of age and gaining its ninth tail, a kitsune turns a golden color, becoming a tenko, heavenly foxcelestial fox, the most powerful form of the kitsune, and then ascends to the heavens. Tenko complete series disc dvd set region 1 uscanada. Classic bbc drama tenko to premiere on true entertainment channel this may. Versions of these beasts serve as toukidens mascot characters. Marion remembers the groups agreement to have a fiveyear reunion at raffles on 20 october 1950. The realistic prison camp set was built in a quarry in dorset in england. Only small parts of tenko were actually filmed in singapore. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. Tenko reunion special womens television drama tenko bbc drama. Tenko is a television drama, coproduced by the bbc and the australian broadcasting corporation abc, which was broadcast between 1981 and 1984 the series dealt with the experiences of british, australian and dutch women who were captured after the fall of singapore in february 1942, after the japanese invasion, and held in a fictional japanese internment camp on a japaneseoccupied island.
A trailer for the 1985 christmas bbc1 featurelength tenko reunion which saw the women who were imprisoned by. Based on reallife experiences, tenko is the powerful story of a group of expat european women living in singapore, whose lives are changed. The meeting with dorothy spurs her to write to everyone, reminding them, and asking them to come. Tenko reunion 1985 former women prisoners of the japanese reunite at the hotel raffles in 1950 singapore. If it lives to 3,000 years, the tenko will evolve into the highest rank for its kind, a kuuko. Christmas on bbc1 1985 tenko reunion trailer by whyayetv. Tenko reunion tv is a film directed by michael owen morris with ann bell, stephanie cole, veronica roberts, elizabeth chambers, year. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Tenko season 0 episode 1 tenko the reunion watch on kodi.
It is viewed as a benign guardian entity and a helpful servant for rice gods. Stephanie beacham, stephanie cole, louise jameson, elizabeth chambers. Reviews, interviews and features from the international film magazine. Tenko is best known in japan as cofounder of the fivewomen band mizutama shobodan polkadot fire brigade. No doubt we will be watching it again as it is a series which i would never get sick of watching. The whole cast were very convincing in the parts they portrayed and although the 3rd series was somewhat slower it was compelling viewing and my evenings wont be the same without it. Series 1 region one playable in the us, canada, mexico, etc.
Drama based on the real life experiences of a group of women whose lives are changed forever when they are taken by the japanese as prisoners of war after the fall of singapore. Burt kwouk, in the bbc tv series tenko band photo jointly produced by the bbc and the australian broadcasting corporation, tenko ran for three. Classic bbc drama tenko to premiere on true entertainment. Five years after their release, the women return to singapore, but they are unaware that a traitor is now in their midst. She started music in 1979 as a member of the rock band mizutama shobodan which was formed by five women. Regarder et telecharger les meilleur films et videos. With ann bell, stephanie cole, veronica roberts, elizabeth chambers. Bbc tv had already achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with wartime period dramas, but 1981 saw their coverage of the events of wwii expand with the arrival of lavinia warners acclaimed series tenko.