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 date	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

References

↑ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1943/bs000420.htm accessed 14 May 2009

External links

Films directed by Hiroshi Shimizu

Beyond the Pass (1924)
The Little Traveling Player (1925)
Lovelorn Times (1926)
Three Daughters (1927)
A Portrait of Changing Love (1928)
The Village Blacksmith (1929)
Sin on Red Lips (1930)
Bully (1931)
Passion (1932)
Sleep, at Mother’s Breast (1933)
Mother from the Far East (1934)
A Hero of Tokyo (1935)
Mr. Thank You (1936)
Loves of the Invincible Fleet (1937)
The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
A Freeloader’s Big Snore (1939)
I Have a Husband (1940)
Introspection Tower (1941)
Record of a Woman Doctor (1942)
Sayon's Bell (1943)
Victory Song (1945)
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)
Children of the Great Buddha (1952)
Mole Alley (1953)
The Second Kiss (1954)
The Shiinomi School (1955)
Why Did These Women Become Like This? (1956)
Dancing Girl (1957)
A Mother's Journey (1958)
Image of a Mother (1959)

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