Sayon's Bell (1943)
- Original title
- サヨンの鐘
- Directed by
- Hiroshi Shimizu
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Manchukuo, Japan
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rating
- 9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A 17 year old Atayal girl from a mountain village in Taiwan goes missing while helping her teacher carry luggage through a storm, and she is thought to have drowned. The film is based on her true story.
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What happens
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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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