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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the legendary Toru Takemitsu - gives .. Read more
| Starring | Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny, David Lampson |
|---|---|
| Director | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the legendary Toru Takemitsu - gives cinematic expression to inner spiritual paradox, and imbues with religious mystery a landscape that seems already sentient with wind, rain, and light.
Two Portuguese priests disembark upon an anonymous Japanese shore. Under cover of nightfall, they seek to infiltrate those Christian sects driven underground by a ruthless magistracy, and re-establish the foothold of the Church on the isolated island-nation. Soon, however, the priests find themselves drawn into the mire of persecution, and gradually learn the truth behind the ominous disappearance of another Catholic missionary decades earlier...
| Starring | Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny, David Lampson, Mako, Noboru Matsuhashi, Tetsuro Tamba |
|---|---|
| Director | Masahiro Shinoda |
| Studio | ARVATO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 9 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Japanese |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1971 To Rent: DVD: 24 Sep 2007 |
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Hard work, but well worth it
This film is very hard-going, so be warned, but, like the other Shinoda currently available from Eureka, 'Assassination', it is well worth it for those ... read more »
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Not for the faint hearted
This film is at one level about the clash of cultures between the East and the West. On another, it is a transformation of the Calvary story, but with a ... read more »
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Surprisingly universal and still powerful
Masahiro Shinodas films have recently been given a season in New York and new audienceds have come to watch and find out about these films. ... read more »
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Hard work, but well worth it
This film is very hard-going, so be warned, but, like the other Shinoda currently available from Eureka, 'Assassination', it is well worth it for those ... read more »