Sandakan No. 8

Sandakan No. 8
A Chinese poster of the film
Directed byKei Kumai
Written byKei Kumai
Sakae Hirozawa
Tomoko Yamazaki (story)
Produced byMasayuki Sato
Hideyuki Shiino
StarringYoko Takahashi
Kinuyo Tanaka
Komaki Kurihara
CinematographyMitsuji Kaneo
Edited byTatsuji Nakashizu
Music byAkira Ifukube
Production
companies
Toho
Haiyūza Eiga
Release date
  • November 2, 1974 (1974-11-02) (Japan)
Running time
121 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box office100 million+ tickets (China)

Sandakan No. 8 (サンダカン八番娼館 望郷, Sandakan hachiban shōkan: Bōkyō), also known as Sandakan 8 and Brothel 8, is a 1974 Japanese drama film directed by Kei Kumai, starring Yoko Takahashi, Komaki Kurihara and Kinuyo Tanaka. It was nominated for the 48th Academy Awards in the category of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It also became one of the highest-grossing Japanese films at the Chinese box office, where it generated box office admissions in the hundreds of millions.