@movies.hour on Instagram: "Martin Scorsese first read the novel Silence by Shūsaku Endo in the late 1980s, and he was deeply moved by its story. He wanted to turn it into a film right away, but it wasn’t easy. For many years, he had problems with getting the rights to the book, finding money to make the movie, and figuring out the right time to film it. He also had other film projects during that time. But he never gave up. It stayed in his heart for almost 30 years, and finally, in 2016, he wa