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Silence - The Masters of Cinema Series

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Number of Discs
1

Release Date
24/09/2007

Studio
Eureka

format
DVD / Normal

Duration
129

Certificate UK
15

Description

Masahiro Shinoda directs this historical Japanese drama that explores the lives of religious missionaries in the 17th century. Japan was under a strict policy of self-imposed exclusion for 400 years and the reward for anyone fetching up on their shores during that was, officially, death. In this film, two Portuguese missionaries land on a remote Japanese shore under cover of darkness to infiltrate local Christians in order to find out what happened to an earlier priest sent there. Locally, Christianity has been driven underground after an earlier surge in popularity by an insecure and brutal government. Japanese fans of the bible must now read it in secret locations in the wilds. As they go about their mission, they come up against government informers and persecution almost immediately. One of them, Padre Rodrigues (David Lamson), is arrested and tortured in an attempt to make him deny his faith. He faces a spiritual crisis as he is gradually forced to see that his faith might not be the rock he imagined and that the people he thinks he's saving might not be doing so badly without Christianity.

Director: Masahiro Shinoda
Writer: Masahiro Shinoda
Writer: Shusaku Endo
Music: Tôru Takemitsu
Actor: Shima Iwashita
Actor: Yoshi Katô
Actor: Don Kenny
Actor: David Lampson
Actor: Mako
Actor: Noboru Matsuhashi
Actor: Tetsuro Tamba
Producer: Kiyoshi Iwashita
Producer: Kinshirô Kuzui
Producer: Tadasuke Ômura
Cinematographer: Kazuo Miyagawa

Main Format
DVD

Keyword Index
Silence - The Masters of Cinema Series|Shima Iwashita

Alternative Title
Chinmoku

Colour
B/W

Region
Region 2

Subtitles
Subtitled

Extras 1
High Definition extras tbc

Extras 2
Language(s):Japanese, Subtitles:English, InteractiveMenu

Extras 3
Booklet, Newlyrestoredhigh-definitionTohotransfer;fullcolourPDFfascimilesoftwolong-out-of-printhistoricaltexts,'AHistoryoftheMissionsinJapanandParaguay'byCeciliaMaryCaddell,c.1856and'Japan'sMartyrChurch'bySisterMaryBernard,c.1926

Catalogue Number
EKA40230

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