Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru

The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls
Developer(s)Nintendo R&D1
Intelligent Systems
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)Toru Osawa
Producer(s)Makoto Kano
Programmer(s)
  • Seiki Sato
  • Yasuhiko Fujii
  • Hiroya Kuriyama
Artist(s)
  • Masahiko Mashimo
  • Tomoyoshi Yamane
Writer(s)Yoshio Sakamoto
Composer(s)Kazumi Totaka
Platform(s)Game Boy
Release
  • JP: September 14, 1992
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (カエルの(ため)(かね)()), officially translated as The Frog For Whom the Bell Tolls, is an action role-playing video game developed by Nintendo and Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy exclusively in Japan in 1992.

The title is a play on Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, which is known in Japan as Ta ga Tame ni Kane wa Naru (誰がために鐘は鳴る). This is in turn an allusion to John Donne's famous Meditation XVII. In 2011, an English fan translation was released.