In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.
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David Lampson
Sebastião Rodrigues
Mako
Kichijiro
Eiji Okada
Inoue Chikugonokami
Rokkō Toura
Interpreter
Noboru Matsuhashi
Mokichi
Yoshi Katō
Old man
Taiji Tonoyama
Prison guard
Don Kenny
Francisco Garrpe
Yasunori Irikawa
Okada Saemon
Tetsuro Tamba
Cristóvão Ferreira
Yoshiko Mita
Woman in Maruyama
Shima Iwashita
Kiku
Masaya Takahashi
Narrator (voice)
Junshi Shimada
Prisoner official
Tomo'o Nagai
Prisoner official
