Shusaku EndoFilmography

Occupation:
Screenwriter, Book Author

  • Silence

    Crew: Book Author

    Actors: Daniel Day-Lewis, Benicio Del Toro

    Synopsis: Martin Scorsese presents a 17th century look at a pair of Jesuit priests' (Daniel Day-Lewis and Benicio Del Toro) quest to Japan in order to spread the word of God in this GK Films production. The picture is based on a novel by Shusaku Endo and adapted by Jay Cocks. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Read More

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  • Aisuru

    Crew: Book Author

    Actors: Miki Sakai, Atsuro Watabe, Kyoko Kishida, Keiju Kobayashi, Jo Shishido

    Synopsis: In this melodramatic romantic tragedy, a beautiful Japanese girl learns that the best kind of love is selfless love. Virginal Mitsu (pop star Miki Sakai) works in a factory and has a crush on Tsutomu (Atsuro Watabe), a young man she met on the Tokyo streets. One day the two go out, and after some Read More

    1997

  • Deep River

    Crew: Book Author

    Synopsis: Based on a book by noted novelist Shusaku Endo, this film concerns three lost souls looking for meaning and redemption: Mitsuko Naruse (Kumiko Akiyoshi) is a recent divorcee still wracked with a guilty conscious; Isobe (Hisashi Igawa) is a white-collar worker morning the death of his wife to Read More

    1995

  • Uni To Dokuyaku

    Crew: Book Author

    Actors: Ken Watanabe, Mikio Narita

    Synopsis: In this gruesome and extraordinarily explicit wartime medical horror story, based on a 1948 novel by Simsako Endo, two rival surgical teams at the University Hospital in Kyushu begin on a course of practice which violates every concept of medical ethics after the moderately innocent decision to Read More

    1987

  • Chinmoku

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Chinmoku or Silence is a story about the suppression of Christianity in Japan, as seen from the point of view of a fugitive priest. The film is critical of both Christianity's expansionism and Japanese society at the time. When the priest is finally captured, he is disturbed at seeing many of his Read More

    1971

  • The Girl I Abandoned

    Crew: Short Story Author

    Synopsis: In this Japanese melodrama, an up-and-coming office worker has an affair with his ex-lover whom he refused to marry. The woman is impoverished and in trouble after she aborted her lover's baby. It is a mutual friend who informs the young businessman, who married another for her status, of the Read More

    1970

  • Watashi Ga Suteta Onna

    Crew: Screenwriter

    Actors: Choichiro Kawarazaki, Ruriko Asaoka, Haruko Kato, Ryutaro Tatsumi

    Synopsis: This melodrama finds a Japanese student feeling the separation of economic classes in society. A poor student with liberal leanings has an affair with a farm girl. His friend talks him out of seeing the girl, explaining the woman can only hold him back. After he dumps her, she quits school to have Read More

    1969

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