Silence (2016)

 

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. 

 

Highly accomplished adaptation of  Shûsaku Endô's novel is visually stunning and has strong performances, although it simplifies the book's far more complex theological analysis; the closing scene is especially disappointing in which the director seems to make a point of his own.