Shūsaku Endō
Author from Japan (1923-1996) · Japan · On the map · Writers · Died at 73
Shūsaku Endō was a Japanese author who wrote from the perspective of a Japanese Catholic. Internationally, he is known for his 1966 historical fiction novel Silence, which was adapted into a 2016 film of the same name by director Martin Scorsese.
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Kei Kumai Directed The Sea and Poison and Deep River- Masayuki Satō Produced Hymn to a Tired Man and Deep River
Masaki Kobayashi Directed Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
Eiji Okuda Also in The Sea and Poison and Deep River
Masahiro Shinoda Directed Silence (1971)
Yoshitarō Nomura Directed Call from Darkness (1981)
Kirio Urayama Directed The Girl I Abandoned (1969)
Makoto Fujita Also in Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)- Kiyoshi Nonomura Produced Silence (1971)
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He was the laureate of several prestigious literary accolades, including the Akutagawa Prize and the Order of Culture, and was inducted into the Roman Catholic Order of St. Sylvester by Pope Paul VI.
