Ogata: Star Of The “Silence” Screen
When people talk about Scorsese’s new movie, “Silence,” they single out Issey Ogata (pictured). Jeff Wells says: ‘He is playing a bad guy (i.e., Inoue Masashige, a real-life figure in Japan’s 17th-century persecution of Christians) but with relish and pizazz. He gives Andrew Garfield‘s Sebastiao Rodrigues hell wth a forked tongue. His every line says “I love debating cowering Christians and explaining with supreme confidence how completely meaningless they are in 17th Century Japan…and I love swatting flies and twitching my eyebrows and flaunting my quirkiness.‒
