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Sayon's Bell
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Wikipedia article
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| director = Hiroshi Shimizu
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| writer = Kihan Nagase
Torashiro Sait
Hiroshi Ushida
| starring = Toshiaki Konoe
Kenji Oyama
Shirley Yamaguchi
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| runtime = 75 minutes
| country = Japan, Manchukuo
| language = Japanese
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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 Kran)
* Toshiaki Konoe as Takeda
* Kenji yama as Murai
* Kinuko Wakamizu as Murai's Wife
* Hatsu Shimazaki as Saburo
* Kenz 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
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