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Sayon's Bell | |
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Directed by | Hiroshi Shimizu |
Written by | Kihan Nagase Torashiro Saitō Hiroshi Ushida |
Starring | Toshiaki Konoe 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 Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.