Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

Keywords: christianity, japan, missionary, based-on-novel-or-book, betrayal, torture, martyrdom, crisis-of-faith, portuguese, 17th-century, shogunate, jesuit-priest, religious-persecution, religious-icon, apostasy,

Title: Silence
Imdb rate: 7.2
Imdb votes: 85,493
Year: 2016
Language: English, Japanese, Latin
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, UK, Taiwan, Japan, Mexico, Italy
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writers: Jay Cocks (screenplay by), Martin Scorsese (screenplay by), Shûsaku Endô (based on the novel by)
Actors:
Andrew Garfield
Adam Driver
Liam Neeson
Tadanobu Asano

Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 6 wins & 51 nominations.