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Two Jesuit priests travel to 17th-century Japan to look for their missing mentor.

In 1640, two young Jesuit priests travel from Portugal to Japan on a mission to track down their former spiritual mentor, Father Ferreira, who is rumoured to have disappeared after renouncing Christianity. The mission puts their own faith to the test.

The third film in Martin Scorsese's trilogy about faith. 


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