Tag Archives: Silence
Shusaku Endo in conversation with William Johnston
Where Buddhism meets Christianity The following conversation took place in Tokyo between Shusaku Endo and Father William Johnston, Jesuit priest, Zen Christian and translator of Silence. The text was translated from Japanese by Johnston and appeared in volume 172 of … Continue reading
An Introduction to Shusaku Endo’s Silence
by Martin Scorsese How do you tell the story of Christian faith? The difficulty, the crisis, of believing? How do you describe the struggle? There have been many great twentieth-century novelists drawn to the subject – Graham Greene, … Continue reading
Introducing five great Japanese writers
If you aren’t yet familiar with Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Shusaku Endo, Yukio Mishima, Wahei Tatematsu and Natsume Soseki, please let us introduce you… Ryunosuke Akutagawa was an immense talent who in his short life wrote over 100 short stories – including Rashomon, … Continue reading
Why Endo never won a Nobel Prize
Peter Owen was Shusaku Endo’s friend, English language publisher and agent for many years. In the Japan Times, Damian Flanagan talks about the author’s work, Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece Silence, and speculation as to why the … Continue reading
Shusaku Endo – Wonderful Fool
Rumour has it that principal photography for director Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s masterpiece Silence is now complete, and postproduction work continues. It seems likely that the film will premiere at Cannes in 2016. Endo was not only a Christian, … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese and Shusaku Endo’s ‘Silence’
Shusaku Endo – born on 27 March 1923 in Tokyo – moved with his family to Dailan in Manchuria while still very young. He stayed there until the age of 10 when his mother took him back to Japan after divorcing his … Continue reading
