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Martin Scorsese's Silence, a ritualistically violent drama about the extinction of Catholicism in feudal Japan, is a film about faith that works like a mirror. It's 1640 and the Tokugawa shogunate has executed 6,000 Christian villagers, mostly in tortures involving tatami mats. Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield), the last Portuguese padre in the country, wonders if his church has imported eternal life or certain death. The Inquisitor (Issei Ogata) tells Rodrigues he can save these converts if he denounces God — there's more power in publicly disgracing a priest than murdering a bunch of nameless nobodies. What would Jesus do?
With the new The Crow remake coming soon, we take a look back at the 30-year-old cult classic original–and where the stars are now.
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