Sayon's Bell
1943 film
- 1 July 1943 (1943-07-01) (Japan)[1]
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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.
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
- ^ "サヨンの鐘". Jmdb.ne.jp. 22 July 2000. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
External links
- Internet Movie Database
- Myth of the Images of Aborigines
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Films directed by Hiroshi Shimizu
- Fue no Shiratama (1929)
- Japanese Girls at the Harbor (1933)
- Eclipse (1934)
- Mr. Thank You (1936)
- The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)
- Nobuko (1940)
- Ornamental Hairpin (1941)
- Sayon's Bell (1943)
- A Mother's Love (1950)
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