Silence (2016)

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

• 17th century
• apostasy
• based on novel
• betrayal
• christianity
• crisis of faith
• japan
• jesuit priest
• martyrdom
• missionary
• portuguese
• religious icon
• religious persecution
• shogunate
• torture