Silence

Amazing cinematography highlights this gut-wrenching, superbly acted, factually inspired, intense, historical, violent, 159-minute Martin Scorsese film based on Shûsaku Endô's 1965 novel in which two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) go to Japan in 1633 against the advice of a priest (Ciarán Hinds) to locate their mentor (Liam Neeson) in a hostile land where a ruthless Japanese Inquisitor (Issei Ogata) was persecuting, torturing, and killing Japanese (Asano Tadanobu, Shin'ya Tsukamoto, Yôsuke Kubozuka, et al.) for their Christian beliefs.
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