While Martin Scorsese prepares his adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence AKA Chinmoku, a couple other items regarding films about Jesuit missionaries and Christian martyrs in 17th-century Asia popped up in my news feed this morning. First, Doug Cummings at FilmJourney.org says he has just finished writing the liner notes for an upcoming DVD release of the previous adaptation of Endo’s novel, which was written by Endo himself and directed by Masahiro Shinoda in 1971. The DVD will be released as... Read more