Martin Scorsese's Silence 沈黙

The struggles of the Jesuits in Japan

Adapted from the novel by Shusaku Endo of the same name, the film Silence, directed by Martin Scorsese, returns to a little known period in the history of Japan: the Jesuit missionaries of the seventeenth century and the clash of two cultures that the notion of faith diverges.

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