The Quiet Duel

The Quiet Duel (静かなる決闘, Shizukanaru Kettō) is a 1949 Japanese film directed by Akira Kurosawa.

The Quiet Duel
Directed byAkira Kurosawa[1]
Produced bySōjirō Motoki
Hisao Ichikawa
Screenplay bySenkichi Taniguchi
Akira Kurosawa
Based onThe Abortion Doctor
by Kazuo Kikuta
StarringToshiro Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Music byAkira Ifukube
CinematographySoichi Aisaka
Production
company
Distributed byDaiei Film
Release date
March 13, 1949 (Japan)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Plot

Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki, a young idealistic doctor who, during the war, contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient 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. 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 Salvarsane and tormented by his sense of injustice, he rejects Misao, his fiancée 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.

Cast
  • Toshiro Mifune as Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
  • Miki Sanjo 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

Production

The film was mostly shot on a soundstage.

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".

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References
  1. Infobox data from 静かなる決闘 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2013-02-27. External link in |publisher= (help)


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