After wrestling with this film for three weeks, what I ultimately take away from it is that it’s a movie about love. In A Man For All Seasons, Thomas More says to his daughter shortly before his execution, “Finally, it’s not a matter of reason…finally, it’s a matter of love.” Regardless of whether one interprets Rodrigues’ final act as an act of love or an act of betrayal or both, what the film makes unmistakably clear is God’s love for us, that He was born into this world to demonstrate that love, and it never abandons us, even when we abandon Him as many times as Kichijiro apostatizes, which may to our limited understanding appear unreasonable. — Evan Cogswell (The Catholic Cinephile)
- Directed by: Martin Scorsese
- Produced by:
- Written by: Jay Cocks Martin Scorsese Shûsaku Endô
- Music by: Kathryn Kluge Kim Allen Kluge
- Cinematography by: Rodrigo Prieto
- Editing by: Thelma Schoonmaker
- Release Date: 2016
- Running Time: 161
- Language: English, Japanese, Latin
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