The Quiet Duel
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Plot
The film centers on Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki, a young, idealistic doctor who, during his service as an army physician during World War II, contracted syphilis from the blood of a patient when he accidentally cut 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, Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki. He comes into contact with the patient who contaminated him, in the process seeing the consequences of ignoring the disease. Treating himself in secret with Salvarsan and tormented by his sense of injustice for not being able to help the man, he rejects Misao, his fiancé of six years, 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.[3]
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
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- Takashi Shimura as Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
- Template:Ill as Susumu Nakada
- Template:Ill as Patrolman Nosaka
- Noriko Sengoku as apprentice nurse Rui Minegishi
- Chieko Nakakita as Takiko Nakada
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- 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
Production
Production was interrupted due to a lengthy strike at the Toho movie studio, and Kurosawa would ultimately finish the movie at rival studio Daiei. At that time Daiei also owned a baseball team, the Daiei Stars, whose players visited the movie set during filming.[4]
Reception
According to review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film received three critic reviews rated 'Fresh', but did not receive enough reviews to earn a consensus.[5]
Home video
The Quiet Duel was released on DVD in the U.S. by BCI Eclipse, as the first title in their "Director's Series". It was never released in U.K. cinemas, but was released on DVD in the U.K. in 2006 under the title "The Silent Duel".
References
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- 1983 Review of film at New York Times
- The Quiet Duel at Akira Kurosawa Info
- Review of film at Hackwriters
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- 1949 films
- 1949 drama films
- 1940s Japanese-language films
- 1940s pregnancy films
- Daiei Film films
- Films about father–son relationships
- Films about syphilis
- Films directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Films produced by Sōjirō Motoki
- Films scored by Akira Ifukube
- Films set in hospitals
- Films with screenplays by Akira Kurosawa
- Films with screenplays by Senkichi Taniguchi
- Japanese black-and-white films
- Japanese drama films
- Japanese-language drama films
- Japanese pregnancy films
- Medical-themed films
- 1949 Japanese films