Silence

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests, Rodrigo and Garrpe, travel to Japan to proselytize, where Christianity is officially banned. They also search for their mentor, Ferreira, with whom they lost contact five years prior and presume is imprisoned. Nagasaki Magistrate Inoue's men capture Rodrigo and throw 300 pieces of silver at Kichijiro (reminiscent of Judas Iscariot) Later Rodrigo is taken to a Buddhist temple to visit Lord Chuan Sawano. Sawano says he preached in Japan for 20 years, and he knows this is not a land