Martin Scorsese's SILENCE Gets Financing; Poised to Start Filming July 2014 in Taiwan". Collider.com. April 19, 2013. Archived from the original on February 23, 2014 . Retrieved March 2, 2014. This brief documentary describes the traditions and culture of the Japanese Christian community. AUDIO Debruge, Peter (December 10, 2016). " 'Silence' Review: Martin Scorsese Belabors His Passion Project". Variety. Archived from the original on March 26, 2017 . Retrieved March 21, 2017.

From the little that I had read about Endo's life, I had already guessed as much. I reassure Mr Kato that to my mind Endo's great gift to his readers, Japanese or otherwise, is to dignify ambiguity. To celebrate the puzzling grey area, and remind us that those old loyalties and certainties are, in our modern world, subject to fluidity and transformation irrespective of what the authorities above us - religious or otherwise - might have us believe.

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Matthews, Joshua (December 1, 2017). " 'Silence': A Review Essay". Pro Rege. Archived from the original on August 4, 2017 . Retrieved July 31, 2017. Caesar A. Montevecchio of the University of Notre Dame published a theological assessment of the spiritual themes in the film concentrating on the act of priestly renunciation depicted towards the end stating: "This climactic scene of Rodrigues trampling the fumi-e makes clear that Silence is as much about the object of Christian faith as it is the experience of that faith. As ambient and live sound are washed out entirely, Rodrigues hears the voice of Christ telling him to trample, that it was to be trampled upon that Christ came into the world. The object of faith becomes a Christ who is a hero of pity, who takes up the weakness and suffering of humankind as his cross, rather than a hero of triumphant resolve. The Jesus of Silence is one of utter kenosis (self-emptying), and one who in the mercy of that kenosis radically sympathizes with the weakness, and frailty, of human beings, even ones like Judas and Kichijirō." [94] Endo worried that Christianity might well be ill-suited to the temperament of Japanese religious psychology, which he felt demanded a more forgiving and accommodating God than the image of God that was being propagated by the Catholic church. In these circumstances Endo's task became clear to him. He would attempt to retailor Christianity into a suit of clothes that could sit comfortably upon the Japanese body. But, as he was endeavouring to do this, he would also be wrestling the face of Japanese society around and pointing it towards a mirror where it would have no choice but to stare at its own hypocrisies. Williams, Mark B. (June 21, 1999). Endō Shūsaku: a literature of reconciliation. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14481-0.

I too am sorry, but meeting Muneya Kato is the next best thing. All enquiries about the late Mr Endo have been met with the "news" that I should speak with Mr Muneya Kato. And now we are seated together in the coffee lounge of a large hotel in the Shibuya district of central Tokyo. The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD on March 28, 2017, with a slightly earlier release date of March 14, 2017, set for digital streaming of the film. [69] Reception [ edit ] Box office [ edit ]

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Tom Brueggemann (January 15, 2017). "Arthouse Audit: Audiences Skip Martin Scorsese's 'Silence' ". IndieWire. Archived from the original on January 17, 2017 . Retrieved January 21, 2017. a b c d "Here's the Film Martin Scorsese Has Been Trying to Make for 27 Years". NoFilmSchool.com. December 9, 2016. Archived from the original on February 20, 2017 . Retrieved January 28, 2017.

I look at him and want to be sure that I understand. I ask him if he is saying that by the end of his life Endo had moved beyond his early attempts to marry the essentialist notion of Japanese identity, to the essentialist notion of Catholic identity? Mr Kato drains his cup of coffee and then he stares into the middle distance. "Yes," he says. And then he turns and looks at me. "Endo witnessed many changes and developments in modern Japanese society."Verdi Productions". Verdifilms.com. Archived from the original on January 9, 2017 . Retrieved January 14, 2017. Scorsese Opts For 'Silence' Over 'Wolf' ". darkhorizons.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2014 . Retrieved March 2, 2014. Rodrigues' journal depicts his struggles: he understands suffering for the sake of one's own faith; but he struggles over whether it is self-centered and unmerciful to refuse to recant when doing so will end another's suffering. At the climactic moment, Rodrigues hears the moans of those who have recanted but are to remain in the pit until he tramples the image of Christ. As Rodrigues looks upon a fumi-e, Christ breaks his silence: "You may trample. You may trample. I more than anyone know of the pain in your foot. You may trample. It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men's pain that I carried my cross." Rodrigues puts his foot on the fumi-e. You Talkin' to Me?". Film Comment. Archived from the original on January 7, 2018 . Retrieved January 6, 2018.