The persecution of Christians was partly a way to quash the uprising. Those factors included the influx of Europeans into the country, which the government viewed as a security threat, as well as the Shimabara Rebellion, a revolt of starving peasants against their lords. The Japanese government’s opposition to Christianity, and the subsequent movement of worshippers to practicing their faith underground, was the result of a complicated set of political factors. They meet a fisherman named Kichijiro ( Yôsuke Kubozuka), who agrees to sneak them onto an island near Nagasaki. Unable to believe such a thing of Ferreira, Rodrigues and Garrpe beg and eventually are permitted by the church to travel to Japan, where they arrive in 1639 amid a government ban on Christianity. The rumor is that he’s now living with his wife among the Japanese. They learn from their superior ( Ciarán Hinds) that their mentor and former confessor Father Ferreira ( Liam Neeson), who had gone to Japan as a missionary, is reported to have apostatized - that is, repudiated his faith. Silence is the story of two young Portuguese Catholic priests, Father Rodrigues ( Andrew Garfield) and Father Garrpe ( Adam Driver). Silence is a story of persecution in a Japan seeking to expel foreigners The answers in Scorsese’s film, as in Endō’s novel, are found not in words, but in the spaces between them. The struggle for faith in a world marked by suffering and God’s silence is present in every frame of Silence.
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