Story of movie The Quiet Duel : The Quiet Duel (?????? Shizukanaru Kett?) is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the second of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune.
| The Quiet Duel | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Produced by | S?jir? Motoki Hisao Ichikawa |
| Written by | Senkichi Taniguchi Akira Kurosawa |
| Based on | a play The Abortion Doctor by Kazuo Kikuta |
| Starring | Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Soichi Aisaka |
Production company | Daiei Film |
| Distributed by | Daiei Film |
Release date | March 13, 1949 (Japan) 1983 (USA) |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Screenplay
Toshiro Mifune plays Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki, a young idealistic doctor who, during the war, contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient (Kenjiro Uemura) when he cuts himself during an operation.
Contaminated with this infectious, typically shameful and then virtually incurable disease, Fujisaki returns home from the war to the clinic presided over by his obstetrician father (Takashi Shimura). He comes into contact with the patient who contaminted him, in the process seeing the consequences of ignoring the disease. Treating himself in secret with Salvarsane and tormented by his sense of injustice, he rejects his fiancée of six years Misao, (Miki Sanj?) without explanation, as he does not wish her to have to wait for a number of years until he is cured. Heartbroken, Misao becomes engaged to another man. She makes one last plea to Fujisaki but he stands firm in rejecting her.
- Toshiro Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
- Miki Sanj? as Misao Matsumoto
- Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
- Kenjiro Uemura as Susumu Nakada
- Isamu Yamaguchi as Patrolman Nosaka
- Noriko Sengoku as Apprentice Nurse Rui Minegishi
- Chieko Nakakita as Takiko Nakada
- Kenichi Miyajima as the Dealer
- Masateru Sasaki as the Old Soldier
- Seiji Izumi as the Policeman
- Tadashi Date as the father of the boy with appendicitis
- Shigeyuki Miyajima as the Officer
The film was mostly shot on a soundstage
The Quiet Duel was released on DVD in the US by BCI Eclipse, as the first title in their "Director's Series". It was never released in UK cinemas but was released on DVD in the UK in 2006 under the title of "The Silent Duel".
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