Silence
Two Jesuits in Edo-period Japan, Scorsese's decades-long passion project.
Silence is a 2016 historical drama directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on Shūsaku Endō's 1966 novel; it is the third film of that book. Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver play two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo-period Japan by way of Macau to find their missing mentor and spread Catholicism, with Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson.
It is the third Scorsese film about religious figures tested in their faith, after The Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Screenplay
- Jay Cocks; Martin Scorsese
- Based on
- Silence (1966 novel), Shūsaku Endō
- Starring
- Andrew Garfield
- Adam Driver
- Tadanobu Asano
- Ciarán Hinds
- Liam Neeson
- Cinematography
- Rodrigo Prieto
- Editing
- Thelma Schoonmaker
- Music
- Kim Allen Kluge; Kathryn Kluge
- Distributor
- Paramount Pictures (U.S.)
- StudioCanal (U.K.)
- Gussi Cinema (Mexico)
- CatchPlay Films (Taiwan)
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Background
Scorsese developed the project for more than 25 years through repeated setbacks, and committed to it after finishing The Wolf of Wall Street in January 2013, with Irwin Winkler producing and financing from Emmett/Furla Films. It premiered in Rome on 29 November 2016 and opened in the United States on 23 December 2016, and both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named it one of the ten best films of the year.
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