Other works by Endo were also adapted in Japan by Kei Kumai, who tackled The Sea and the Poison and Deep River, Endo's final novel. The second adaptation is the 2016 film by Martin Scorsese. Silence in particular has been adapted for film twice, once in Japan by Masahiro Shinoda (whose screenplay was written by Endo though the latter was critical of changes to the ending made by Shinoda). Both novels are impeccably researched and striking for its Perspective Flip in depicting the West from Japanese eyes, balanced by Endo's refusal to glorify or condemn either Japanese traditions or foreign influences. He's most well known however for the Historical Fiction novels dealing with the arrival of Christianity in Japan - Silence and The Samurai. He first came to fame for his short novel The Sea and the Poison which dealt with the moral squalor behind the human experimentation by Imperial Japan's forces. He also took much inspiration from other Catholic novelists such as Georges Bernanos, Francois Mauriac and Graham Greene (the latter was a big fan of Endo and constantly promoted his work in the Anglophone).Įndo was incredibly prolific as a novelist and short-story writer. A later visit to the Holy Land however, reconciled Endo to his faith, taking inspiration from Jesus' own status as an outsider and his popularity and support among the vagabonds and outsider of Judean society. Yet among the West, which Endo got to experience when he studied in France, he was again an outsider among those who did not see him as a real Catholic on account of his Japanese origins. The novel by Japanese author Shusaku Endo is more popular in Japan than in the West (despite famous fans like Graham Greene) and the film, despite being. Among his fellow Japanese, he was practising a religion associated with the West and which was perceived as a tool of imperialism and which in any case comprised less than 1% of its population. Catholicism tended to mark Endo as an outsider. Endo's parents divorced sometime after his birth and his mother converted to Catholicism and baptized her son in the same. He was part of the Third Generation of post-war writers, who came on to the scene after the Second World War. Shūsaku Endō (Ma– September 29, 1996) is a Japanese novelist and short-story writer known for telling bleak tales about alienation, corruption and suffering, filtered through his unique perspective as a Japanese Christian.
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