Sayon's Bell

Sayon's Bell
Directed by	Hiroshi Shimizu
Written by	Kihan Nagase Torashiro Saitō Hiroshi Ushida
Starring	Toshiaki Konoe Kenji Oyama Shirley Yamaguchi
Release dates	1 July 1943 (1943-07-01) (Japan)[1]
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Sayon's Bell (サヨンの鐘, Sayon no kane) was 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 Masaki Takita 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

External links

• Internet Movie Database
• Myth of the Images of Aborigines

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• Children of the Beehive (1948)
• At Eighteen a Girl Tells Lies (1949)
• A Mother’s Love (1950)
• Children of the Beehive: What Happened Next (1951)
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• [[The Second Kiss] (1954)
• The Shiinomi School (1955)
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• Dancing Girl (1957)
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• Image of a Mother (1959)

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