Sandakan No. 8
Original title: Sandakan hachiban shôkan: Bôkyô / Brothel No. 8
“A prostitute is a woman too.”
1974 · 2 h
Kei KumaiCast
Komaki Kurihara Yôko Takahashi 
Kinuyo Tanaka Takiko Mizunoe Eiko Mizuhara Yoko Todo
Credits
Written by: Tomoko Yamazaki
Plot
A woman historian meets an old woman who was once a karayuki-san, a Japanese girl sold into prostitution abroad, and learns of the hardship of her life in Borneo.
Sinekatalog’s take
A moving, powerful social-historical drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (878 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- Japan's Longest Day 1967 · Kihachi Okamoto · IMDb 7.7 · Same movement
- The Insect Woman 1963 · Shohei Imamura · IMDb 7.3 · Viewers also liked
- The Life of Oharu 1952 · Kenji Mizoguchi · IMDb 8.0 · Viewers also liked
- Kagemusha 1980 · Akira Kurosawa · IMDb 7.9 · Similar genres
- Street of Shame 1956 · Kenji Mizoguchi · IMDb 7.8 · Viewers also liked
- Pigs and Battleships 1961 · Shohei Imamura · IMDb 7.4 · Viewers also liked