EBOND Silence (no ita) DVD D820554

Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction coupled with a pensive score by the legendary Toru Takemitsu gives cinematic expression to inner spiritual paradox, and imbues with religious mystery a landscape that seems already sentient with wind, rain, and light. Two Portuguese priests disembark upon an anonymous Japanese shore. Under cover of nightfall, they seek to infiltrate those Christian sects driven underground by a ruthless magistracy, and re-establish the foothold of the Church on the isolated island-nation. Soon, however, the priests find themselves drawn into the mire of persecution, and gradually learn the truth behind the ominous disappearance of another Catholic missionary decades earlier... By way of a heavily made-up and polyglot Tetsuro Tanba (Assassination, Kwaidan, Samurai Spy), Silence builds toward a revelation that approaches the impact of Colonel Kurtz's entrance in Conrad's Heart of Darkness (or Marlon Brando's take on Kurtz in Coppola's Apocalypse Now). Rendered in a tender colour palette courtesy of master cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa (Rashomon, Yojimbo, Ugetsu monogatari), Silence unearths lies and beauty at the intersection of religion and Japanese society. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present for the first time on DVD in the UK Masahiro Shinoda's Silence based upon the same novel that has intrigued American filmmaker Martin Scorsese for decades, and spurred his own work on a film adaptation of the source material. Special Features are a Newly restored high-definition Toho transfer, New and improved optional English subtitles, Full-colour PDF facsimiles of two historical texts long out-of-print: --- A History of the Missions in Japan and Paraguay by Cecilia Mary Caddell (314 pages, c. 1856) --- Japan's Martyr Church by Sister Mary Bernard (130 pages, c. 1926), A 20-page booklet containing a new essay by writer Doug Cummings, and more...

Product details
Aspect Ratio ? : ? 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ? : ? No
MPAA rating ? : ? Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ? : ? 7.48 x 5.31 x 0.55 inches; 2.93 Ounces
Item model number ? : ? EKA40230
Director ? : ? Masahiro Shinoda
Media Format ? : ? PAL
Run time ? : ? 2 hours and 9 minutes
Release date ? : ? September 24, 2007
Actors ? : ? Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny, David Lampson, Mako
Subtitles: ? : ? English
Producers ? : ? Silence (1971) ( Chinmoku ), Silence (1971), Chinmoku
Language ? : ? Japanese (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Studio ? : ? Eureka Entertainment Ltd
ASIN ? : ? B000SSNA7Y
Country of Origin ? : ? United Kingdom

Genere: Drammatico
Regione: DVD 2 (EUR, JPN, M EAST)