Synopsis

The Quiet Duel (1949)

Toshirō Mifune plays a young idealistic doctor who works at his father’s (Takashi Shimura) clinic in a small and seedy district. 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, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
Akira Kurosawa
Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjō, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura, Isamu Yamaguchi, Noriko Sengoku, Chieko Nakakita, Kenichi Miyajima, Masatoki Sasaki, Seiji Izumi, Tadashi Date, Shigeyuki Miyajima, Junnosuke Miyazaki, Kisao Tobita, Kan Takami, Etsuko Sudo, Hatsuko Wakahara, Hiroko Machida, Wakayo Matsumura, Yakuko Ikegami, Shigeru Matsumoto, Yosuke Kudo
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