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The Quiet Duel
Release Date: March 19, 1949
Year | : | 1949 |
Slogan | : | «» |
Genres | : | Drama |
Production Companies | : | Daiei Film |
Director | : | Akira Kurosawa |
Producers | : | Sōjirō Motoki, Hisao Ichikawa |
Writers | : | Akira Kurosawa, Kazuo Kikuta |
RunTime | : | 95 mins. |
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.
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