Silence (1971 film)

Silence
Original Japanese poster
Directed by	Masahiro Shinoda
Written by	Shusaku Endo Masahiro Shinoda
Starring	Shima Iwashita
Music by	Tōru Takemitsu
Cinematography	Kazuo Miyagawa
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	1971 (1971)
Running time	129 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese English

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 on the entry of Jesuit missionaries to seventeenth century Japan. Mainly with Japanese dialogue, it has short sequences in English. It was entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Cast

Shima Iwashita
Yoshi Kato
Don Kenny
David Lampson
Mako (as Mako Iwamatsu)
Noboru Matsuhashi
Junshi Shimada as Karirô Yakunin
Tetsuro Tamba

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: Silence". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-13.

External links

Silence at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Masahiro Shinoda

Assassination (1964) Pale Flower (1964) With Beauty and Sorrow (1965) Samurai Spy (1965) Double Suicide (1969) The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970) Silence (1971) Himiko (1974) Ballad of Orin (1977) MacArthur's Children (1984) Gonza the Spearman (1986) Childhood Days (1990) Sharaku (1995) Moonlight Serenade (1997)

Mainichi Film Award for Best Film

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