Summary Two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Ev...
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese, Shûsaku Endô
Summary Two Jesuit priests, Sebastião Rodrigues and Francis Garrpe, travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact. There they witness the persecution of Japanese Christians at the hands of their own government which wishes to purge Japan of all western influence. Ev...
Directed By: Martin Scorsese
Written By: Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese, Shûsaku Endô