The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel

Infobox Film
name =The Quiet Duel


director =Akira Kurosawa
producer =Daiei
imdb_id =0041870
writer =Senkichi Taniguchi cite news |first=Gavin J.|last=Blair|title=Director Senkichi Taniguchi dies at 95|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/deaths/e3ib3de07b4b336a21b70f360cf5e7d8abb |work=Hollywood Reporter|publisher= |date=2007-11-01 |accessdate=2007-10-05]
starring =Toshirō Mifune
Takashi Shimura
music =Akira Ifukube
cinematography=Soichi Aisaka
production_company=Daei
distributor=Daiei
released =March 13, 1949
runtime =95 minutes
country =Japan
language =Japanese
awards =
budget =
nihongo|"The Quiet Duel"|静かなる決闘|"Shizukanaru Ketto" is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

Plot

Toshirō Mifune (in the second of many films with Kurosawa), plays a young idealistic doctor, still a virgin, who works at his father's (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. However, during the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience and celibacy, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.

References

DVD

The R1 DVD was released by BCI Eclipse, as the first title in their "Director's Series".

External links

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* " [http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1949/by000330.htm The Quiet Duel] " ja icon at the Japanese Movie Database


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