Scorsese’s Next Film: Endo Shusaku’s ‘Silence’
It looks liek Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese is going to be making a film based on one of my favorite Japanese novels, Endo Shusaku’s Silence:
Scorsese is turning his sights to a story of missionaries in 17th century Japan. “Silence” is a long-cherished project that he hopes to shoot partially in Japan in summer 2008.
Although it’s a period piece, Scorsese thinks it has lessons for America today.
“It raises a lot of questions about foreign cultures coming in and imposing their way of thinking on another culture they know nothing about,” Scorsese told The Associated Press on Thursday — raising his eyebrows just to make the point absolutely clear.
