help!

[Jasper Sharp]

This one probably wouldn't be Chinmoku, as this film is from 1971 and is in colour.
Perhaps the film you're asking about is Nagisa Oshima's The Revolt, which showed at the BFI recently as Shiro from Amakusa, the Christian Rebel.
Its from 1962.

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> Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:58:39 -0500
> From: bianca_briciu at yahoo.com
> To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
> Subject: Re: help!
> 
> Hello Moe,
> The film you are talking about is made after a novel by Endo Shusaku and 
> it is called Silence (Chinmoku in Japanese). I don't know who made it 
> but maybe you find it after the title. All Endo's novels are about 
> Christianity in Japan and very, very interesting.
> Best, Bianca
> > Hi everyone;
> > I just joined kinejapan and got a question, appreciated if one of u 
> > can help.
> > I'm searching for a title to a Japanese movie. it's a black and white 
> > movie probably made in 1960s and it's about prosecution of christians 
> > in sixteen century Japan.
> > a blacksmith is told to make a cross and to make people walk on it 
> > and  those hidden christian who wouldn't walk on cross are branded 
> > Christian and punished. this blacksmith who is not a christian has a 
> > sister who is a Christian and make him see the light so to speck and I 
> > 'm not sure but probably he refuses to make the cross or walk on it 
> > and gets killed.
> > any suggestion?
> > thanks
> >  Moe
> >
> >
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