Sayon's Bell

Sayon's Bell
Directed byHiroshi Shimizu
Written byKihan Nagase
Torashiro Saitō
Hiroshi Ushida
StarringToshiaki Konoe
Kenji Oyama
Shirley Yamaguchi
Release date
  • 1 July 1943 (1943-07-01) (Japan)[1]
Running time
75 minutes
CountriesJapan, Manchukuo
LanguageJapanese

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.

  1. ^ "サヨンの鐘". Jmdb.ne.jp. 22 July 2000. Retrieved 6 June 2021.