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Endō first attended Waseda University for the stated purpose of studying medicine, [1] but later decided to switch to the literature programme at Keio University. [4] His studies were interrupted by the war, during which he worked in a munitions factory [3] and also contributed to literary journals. In 1968, he would later become chief editor of one of these, the prestigious Mita Bungaku. [6] a b "Martin Scorsese to Make Noise on 'Silence' at Cannes; Emmett/Furla Funding The Film". Deadline Hollywood. April 19, 2013. Archived from the original on February 19, 2016 . Retrieved January 16, 2016. Several reviewers such as Justin Chang and Mark Kermode emphasized Scorsese's collaboration with his production crew and with his actors as contributing to the film's quality. Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Justin Chang called the film an "anguished masterwork" for Scorsese, stating: "Working with such sterling past collaborators as editor Thelma Schoonmaker, production designer Dante Ferretti and cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, Scorsese has done more than resurrect a vision of feudal Japan... Silencefeels less like a feat of adaptation than an act of artistic submission". [78] Mark Kermode writing for The Guardian indicated exemplary performances by the range of Japanese supporting actors in the cast, stating: "The real stars however, are the Japanese cast, from Yōsuke Kubozuka's enigmatic wretch, Kichijirō... to Yoshi Oida's devout elder Ichizo, to whose village these priests bring both salvation and suffering. As a smiling, silver-tongued interpreter, Tadanobu Asano is a superb foil to the inquisitor, Inoue, played with fly-swatting menace by a wheedling Issey Ogata". [79] Some reviewers cited the legacy aspects of the film for Scorsese, and compared Scorsese to iconic director Ingmar Bergman. Ty Burr of The Boston Globe said: "The movie's being promoted as the third in the director's unofficial trilogy of faith, after The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Kundun (1997), and it feels like a self-conscious masterpiece, a summing-up from a filmmaker who, at 74, may be thinking of his legacy." [83] Joshua Rothkopf of Time Out London gave the film five stars out of five, saying: "Scorsese has hit the rare heights of filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer, artists who find in religion a battleground that leaves even the strongest in tatters, compromised and broken." [84] Emma Green of The Atlantic gave the film high praise, stating: "This is what makes Scorsese's film so radical and so unlike many movies about religion: It's actually art." [85] Robbie Collin of The Telegraph gave the film five stars out of five, stating: "Scorsese's brutal spiritual epic will scald, and succor, your soul." Collin further added: "It's the kind of work a great filmmaker can only pull off with a lifetime's accrued expertise behind him". [86] Brian Truitt of USA Today gave the film three-and-a-half stars, stating: "With the religious historical drama Silence, Martin Scorsese proves he's as masterful a filmmaker with men of God as he is with gangsters." Truitt also argued that the film "marks one of the deeper and most thoughtful projects in Scorsese's career". [87] a b Sharma, OP (2006). "Shushaku Endo (1923-1996): his tuberculosis and his writings". Postgrad Med J. 82 (965): 157–61. doi: 10.1136/pgmj.2005.037366. PMC 2563703. PMID 16517794.

Silence (15)". British Board of Film Classification. December 12, 2016. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016 . Retrieved January 14, 2017. On the less serious side, here's a compelling piece from Slate about the Takenouchi Documents, a questionable set of religious texts claiming that Jesus faked his death so he could move to Japan. VIDEO

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Ward, Haruko Nawata (March 1, 2017). "Silence dir. by Martin Scorsese (review)". Pro Rege. 103 (1): 169–170. doi: 10.1353/cat.2017.0055. S2CID 164221036. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017 . Retrieved July 31, 2017. Consider Silence a tour of 1600s Japan. We encounter hordes of Japanese Christians more devoted to Christianity than Ron Swanson is to bacon. We meet powerful samurai who can sentence entire villages to death without breaking a sweat. We even meet a former priest or two: men whose rejection of Christianity shakes Rodrigues to his core. And in the midst of this, the poor priest is left scratching his head as to what it all means. Set in seventeenth-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to remote villages, encouraging small gatherings of persecuted Christians. As the priests witness the torture of their Japanese congregations by government officials, who urge them to publicly renounce Christ, they are forced to question God’s apparent absence and silence toward their oppression. They question God’s love and His goodness.

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 28, 2017, with a slightly earlier release date of March 14, 2017, set for digital streaming of the film. [69] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] Correct us if we're wrong, but we're going to go out on a limb and say that if Martin Scorsese adapts a book into a movie, you can be reasonably certain that it's going to be an awesome book. By the time Endo reached the second half of his career it was clear that the defining theme of his oeuvre was the yawning chasm between the internal contradictions and pressures of Japanese life on the one hand, and the world of Christianity and Europe on the other. Tragic Death on Taiwan Set of Martin Scorsese-Directed 'Silence' ". Deadline Hollywood. January 29, 2015. Archived from the original on February 3, 2015 . Retrieved February 20, 2015. a b "Garfield Interview with Steve Colbert". Steve Colbert Late Night. Archived from the original on July 25, 2017 . Retrieved August 2, 2017.

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Having completed the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola for playing a Jesuit in the movie, Andrew Garfield said: "What was really easy was falling in love with this person, was falling in love with Jesus Christ. That was the most surprising thing." [50] Filming [ edit ] Thelma Schoonmaker, a frequent collaborator on Scorsese films for over forty years, was the editor for Silence. A terrible anguish rose up in his breast. Violently he shook his head trying to control the ugly imaginings and the words rose up to his throat like nausea… Repeating the prayer again and again he tried wildly to distract his attention; but the prayer could not tranquilize his agonized heart. ‘Lord, why are you silent? Why are you always silent…?’ (140-141). Caesar A. Montevecchio of the University of Notre Dame published a theological assessment of the spiritual themes in the film concentrating on the act of priestly renunciation depicted towards the end stating: "This climactic scene of Rodrigues trampling the fumi-e makes clear that Silence is as much about the object of Christian faith as it is the experience of that faith. As ambient and live sound are washed out entirely, Rodrigues hears the voice of Christ telling him to trample, that it was to be trampled upon that Christ came into the world. The object of faith becomes a Christ who is a hero of pity, who takes up the weakness and suffering of humankind as his cross, rather than a hero of triumphant resolve. The Jesus of Silence is one of utter kenosis (self-emptying), and one who in the mercy of that kenosis radically sympathizes with the weakness, and frailty, of human beings, even ones like Judas and Kichijirō." [94] Shūsaku Endō’s Silence takes place in Japan during the 1600s, shortly after the Japanese government suppressed the Shimabara Rebellion, in which Christian Japanese peasants rebelled against the government’s heavy persecution. After the rebellion’s defeat, many Catholics went underground, continuing to practice their religion in secrecy. The novel begins when a young Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Sebastian Rodrigues, and his two colleagues, Father Garrpe and Father de Santa Maria, decide to set out to Japan to find out what happened to their teacher, Father Ferreira. Ferreira is rumored to have apostatized, or renounced his religious beliefs, after having gone underground in Japan and spent thirty years in Christian service there. Rodrigues finds it hard to believe that Ferreira, a highly respected member of the Jesuit community, has renounced his faith. If he has, Rodrigues wonders what this means about his faith in Christianity and the religion he has dedicated his life to.