The Quiet Duel
1949 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan
Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor, contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery. After the war, he returns to his fiancée and rejects her without explanation. His nurse Rui learns the truth, however. When Fujisaki encounters the man who had infected him in the war, the doctor forces the man to take responsibility for himself and for the man's wife, who expects a child.
Direction Akira Kurosawa
Cast Toshirô Mifune · Takashi Shimura · Miki Sanjo · Chieko Nakakita · Kenjirô Uemura · Noriko Sengoku · Jyonosuke Miyazaki · Kan Takami · Isamu Yamaguchi · Shigeru Matsumoto · Hiroko Machida · Kisao Tobita · Shigeyuki Miyajima · Tadashi Date · Etsuko Sudo · Seiji Izumi · Masateru Sasaki · Kenichi Miyajima · Yosuke Kudo · Yakuko Ikegami · Wakayo Matsumura
Soundtrack Akira Ifukube
Screenplay Akira Kurosawa · Kazuo Kikuta
Cinematography Soichi Aisaka
Original title Shizukanaru Kettô
Also known as The Silent Duel
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