Sayon's Bell
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Directed by | Hiroshi Shimizu |
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Starring | Kenji Oyama Shirley Yamaguchi |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
Countries | Japan, Manchukuo |
Language | Japanese |
Sayon's Bell (サヨンの鐘, Sayon no Kane) is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Shimizu and based on the true story of a 17-year-old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'ao village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture, Taiwan, who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher during a storm in 1938.
Cast[]
- Shirley Yamaguchi as Sayon (credited as Ri Kôran)
- Toshiaki Konoe as Takeda
- Kenji Ôyama as Murai
- Kinuko Wakamizu as Murai's Wife
- Hatsu Shimazaki as Saburo
- Kenzô Nakagawa as Mona
- Hideko Mimura as Namina
- Hiroshi Mizuhara as Pig buyer, father of Sayon
- Minoru Nakamura as Taya
See also[]
- Cinema of Taiwan
- Taiwanese aborigines
- Atayal people
References[]
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Categories:
- 1943 films
- Japanese-language films
- Japanese films
- Films directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
- Atayal culture
- Japanese drama films
- Japanese black-and-white films
- 1943 drama films
- Japanese film stubs
- 1940s film stubs