Great human document

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2017)

On 16th century Japanese missionaries had succeeded in introducing Catholicism in Japan and converted lots of people till this was considered a danger by Japanese authorities that outlawed Catholicism there and arrested and executed several missionaries. This movie is an excellent human document about this by telling us the story of two missionaries who travel to Japan to search their mentor of whom there were no reliable news. There they must face the severe persecution of the authorities though at first many converted peasants help and hide them. That puts them into a lot of trouble and the story is admirably told in several very dramatic scenes, excellent images and extremely good performance of the actors. There was a small flaw when a couple of Japanese authorities and leaders behaved more like western current people in terms of facial expressions and way of talking than the usual Japanese ones. But I think that in general this movie shows a vivid quality in terms of images, scenery and characters.