4 Films & TV Shows Set In Singapore During The 1940s
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Wonder Boy
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1940sIts time to play your own music. — Directed by the Singaporean composer Dick Lee himself, this biopic of his youth, covers three years of his life, from his early years as a teenage singer-songwriter up to the release of his debut album in 1947.
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In the Room
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1940sCan you resist temptation? — This sensitive and sensual film draws together several narratives spanning several decades, all of them transpiring in the same room of the same Singaporean hotel — and all of them involving sex.
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Canopy
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1940sDon't get caught — Wartime, 1942. Singapore. An Australian fighter pilot shot down in combat awakens suspended in the treetops. As night devours day, he must navigate through dangerous jungle in search of sanctuary.
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King Rat
🇸🇬 Singapore The 1940sThey Made the Toughest Among Them... King! — When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
