Scorsese’s “Silence” Grapples With Questions of Faith in Seventeenth-Century Japan

Portuguese priest Sebastião Rodrigues (left; Andrew Garfield) with the “hidden Christian” Mokichi (right; Tsukamoto Shin’ya). Rodrigues comes to Japan to seek his teacher, Father Ferreira, who is said to have apostatized. © 2016 FM Films, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

From left to right, Asano Tadanobu, Kubozuka Yōsuke, and Issey Ogata, at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan press conference in Tokyo on January 12, 2017.

Martin Scorsese directing Silence in Taiwan. © 2016 FM Films, LLC. All Rights Reserved.