Sometimes silence is the deadliest sound.
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
japan
based on novel or book
christianity
missionary
remake
betrayal
torture
martyrdom
crisis of faith
portuguese
jesuits (society of jesus)
17th century
shogunate
religious persecution
religious icon
apostasy