---
title: 'Silence (2016)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Martin Scorsese'
released: '2016-11-29'
runtime_minutes: 161
certification: 'R'
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Taiwan'
  - 'United Kingdom'
  - 'Italy'
  - 'Mexico'
  - 'United States'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/silence-2016'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490215/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Silence (2016)

2016 · R · 161 min · Drama, History · Taiwan, United Kingdom, Italy, Mexico, United States, Japan


## Synopsis

Silence is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Shūsaku Endō, marking the third filmed adaptation of the novel. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson. The plot follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo period Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity. It is the third of Scorsese's films about religious figures struggling with challenges of faith, following The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Kundun (1997).

## Credits

- **Director:** [Martin Scorsese](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-scorsese)
- **Screenplay:** [Martin Scorsese](https://cinepixo.com/people/martin-scorsese), [Jay Cocks](https://cinepixo.com/people/jay-cocks)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Howard Shore](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-shore)
- **Producer:** [Barbara De Fina](https://cinepixo.com/people/barbara-de-fina)
- **Director of Photography:** [Rodrigo Prieto](https://cinepixo.com/people/rodrigo-prieto)
- **Editor:** [Thelma Schoonmaker](https://cinepixo.com/people/thelma-schoonmaker)

## Cast

- [Béla Baptiste](https://cinepixo.com/people/bela-baptiste) as Engelbert Kaempfer
- [Ryō Kase](https://cinepixo.com/people/ryo-kase) as João
- [Tadanobu Asano](https://cinepixo.com/people/tadanobu-asano) as The Interpreter
- [Andrew Garfield](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrew-garfield) as Giuseppe Chiara
- [Adam Driver](https://cinepixo.com/people/adam-driver) as Francisco Garupe
- [Issey Ogata](https://cinepixo.com/people/issey-ogata) as Inoue Masashige
- [Liam Neeson](https://cinepixo.com/people/liam-neeson) as Cristóvão Ferreira
- [Sabu](https://cinepixo.com/people/sabu) as Samurai #1
- [Nana Komatsu](https://cinepixo.com/people/nana-komatsu) as Mónica
- [Ciarán Hinds](https://cinepixo.com/people/ciaran-hinds) as Alessandro Valignano
- [Katsuo Nakamura](https://cinepixo.com/people/katsuo-nakamura) as The Monk
- [Yoshi Oida](https://cinepixo.com/people/yoshi-oida) as Ichizo
- [Yōsuke Kubozuka](https://cinepixo.com/people/yosuke-kubozuka) as Kichijirō
- [Shinya Tsukamoto](https://cinepixo.com/people/shinya-tsukamoto) as Mokichi

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Official site: http://www.silencemovie.com/
Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/silence-2016
Film facts: Wikidata (Q18811634); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.