Silence (1971 film)

Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, translit. Chinmoku) is a 1971 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda, based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo. The premise involves the entry of Jesuit missionaries to seventeenth-century Japan. Most of the film's dialogue is in Japanese, though it has short sequences in English. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

Silence (1971 film)

Silence (Japanese: 沈黙, translit. Chinmoku) is a 1971 Japanese drama film directed by Masahiro Shinoda, based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo. The premise involves the entry of Jesuit missionaries to seventeenth-century Japan. Most of the film's dialogue is in Japanese, though it has short sequences in English. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.