his most famous work being Silence, in which the Roman Catholic author deals with the torture and martyrdom of Christians in 17th-century... Shusaku Endo, Author, Van C. Gessel, Translator New ...

Martin Scorsese's adaptation of "Silence," Shusaku Endo's tale of Catholic missionaries suffering brutal repression in 17th-century Japan, has met with mixed reviews. Some have found it ...

The acclaimed novel “Silence” by Shusaku Endo is headed to the big screen. Martin Scorsese is planning to direct, and Liam Neeson has signed on to star, Deadline reports. Published in 1966 in ...

The blogosphere has been awash this month with reviews of Martin Scorsese’s latest movie Silence. The film represents ... name by the Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo and I, for one, shall never ...

Shusaku Endo was born in Tokyo in 1923 and spent his ... Kevin Spinale, S.J., ventured a thought in 2016 as to why Silence gained such popularity as a novel—and why it retains allure decades ...

Silence is, on the surface ... to take the work as the spiritual autobiography of the author, Shusaku Endo, himself a Japanese Catholic. Endo puts his intellectual misgivings about Christianity ...

and yet the numbers of their victims pale when you consider how many people Martin Scorsese will ultimately torture with “Silence.” Based on the novel of the same name by Shusaku Endo ...

But if that filmmaker is Martin Scorsese you need not worry, and the film he has finally made from Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo’s 1966 book Silence from his own screenplay written with Jay ...

New York City’s Archbishop Paul Moore Jr. had sent him a copy of Shusaku Endo’s 1966 novel “Silence” to him. Scorsese was fascinated by the representation of the essence of Christianity as ...