Shūsaku Endō
Age: N/A | From: Toshima City, Tokyo, Japan
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Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Toshima City, Tokyo, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 14
TV Involvements: 2
Most Famous Work
Biography
Endō Shūsaku, (born March 27, 1923, Tokyo, Japan—died Sept. 29, 1996, Tokyo), Japanese novelist noted for his examination of the relationship between East and West through a Christian perspective. Endō became a Roman Catholic at age 11 with the encouragement of his mother and an aunt. At Keio University he majored in French literature (B.A., 1949), a subject he studied from 1950 to 1953 at the University of Lyon in France. His first collections of fiction, Shiroi hito and Kiiroi hito (both 1955; “White Man” and “Yellow Man”), indicate the direction of most of his later fiction: they contrast Japanese and Western experience and perspectives. In Umi to dokuyaku (1957; The Sea and Poison), he examines the Japanese sense of morality in a war story about Japanese doctors performing a vivisection on a downed American pilot. One of Endō’s most powerful novels, Chimmoku (1966; Silence), is a fictionalized account of Portuguese priests who traveled to Japan and the subsequent slaughter of their Japanese converts. This novel and Samurai (1980; The Samurai)—a fascinating account of a samurai’s journey on behalf of his shogun to open trade with Mexico, Spain, and Rome—are considered his best writing, showing the complexities of the interactions between cultures as well as presenting a supple and well-told narrative. Endō’s other extended fiction includes Kazan (1959; Volcano), Kuchibue o fuku toki (1974; When I Whistle), Sukyandaru (1986; Scandal), and a number of comic novels. He also wrote short stories, drama, essays, and a biography.
Most Famous Work
Silence
(2016) Novel
Silence
(1971) Screenplay
松田聖子のはじめての情事
(1983) Novel
Call from Darkness
(1981) Novel
The Midday Devil
(2017) Novel
A Life of Jesus
(2024) Book
The Sea and Poison
(1986) Novel
Yojo no jidai
(1988) Original StoryActing
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| 1997 | Novel | |
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| 1986 | Novel | |
| 1983 | Novel | |
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| 1981 | Novel | |
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| 1969 | Novel | |
| 1968 | Novel | |
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