The story of two Catholic missionaries (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) who face the ultimate test of faith when they travel to Japan in search of their missing mentor (Liam Neeson) - at a time when Catholicism was outlawed and their presence forbidden.
At 1:15:38, when Rodrigues talks to Monica about what awaits the faithful in Paradise, she is looking directly at him. In the very next shot, her head is bowed. See more »
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1633. Pax Christi. Praised be God. Although for ust there is little peace in this land now. I never knew Japan when it was a country of light, but I have never known it to be as dark as it is now. All our progress has ended in new persecution, new repression, new suffering. They use ladles filled with holes so the drops would come out slowly, and the pain would be prolonged. Each small splash of the water was like a burning coal. The Governor of Nagasaki took four friars... [...]
For The Souls in Purgatory Traditional song Performed by Women from Beira Baxa with adufe accompaniment Courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings/UNESCO