Sayon's Bell

Name: Sayon's Bell
Director: Hiroshi Shimizu
Released: 1943-07-01
Duration: 1 h 32 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Toshiaki Konoe, Kenji Oyama, Kinuko Wakamizu, Hideko Mimura

1943

1h 32m

Director: Hiroshi Shimizu

Writers: Kihan Nagase, Toyojirô Nagashima

Overview

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current 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.