

In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
Directed by Masahiro Shinoda
User score
40 votes

Released
November 13, 1971
2h 10m
Japanese, English

David Lampson
Sebastião Rodrigues

Mako
Kichijiro

Eiji Okada
Inoue Chikugonokami

Rokkō Toura
Interpreter

Noboru Matsuhashi
Mokichi

Yoshi Katō
Old man

Taiji Tonoyama
Prison guard
Don Kenny
Francisco Garrpe

Yasunori Irikawa
Okada Saemon

Tetsuro Tamba
Cristóvão Ferreira

Yoshiko Mita
Woman in Maruyama

Shima Iwashita
Kiku

Masaya Takahashi
Narrator (voice)

Junshi Shimada
Prisoner official

Tomo'o Nagai
Prisoner official
Kappei Matsumoto
Prisoner official

Yoshio Inaba
Prisoner official

Yūsuke Takita
Ichizo
Kikue Mōri
Old woman