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Release, runtime and language
1996 · 85 mins · Portuguese
Directed by
João Mário Grilo
Starring
Geraldine Chaplin, Yoshi Oida, Josí Abreu, Marques D'Arede, José Eduardo, Takeshi Ōbayashi

Jesuit priest Julião Nakaura, one of four youths sent to Rome in 1538 to prove Japan’s conversion, is forced 50 years later to reaffirm his faith before a Shogun demanding he renounce it. Nakaura and envoy Miguel Chijiwa resist; Chijiwa is martyred. Betrayed by Cristóvão Ferreira, who yields, Nakaura meets a grim end. A woman seeks her past.

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