The Quiet Duel poster
Director Akira Kurosawa
Writer Akira Kurosawa, Kazuo Kikuta

The Quiet Duel

Drama1949

Original Title: 静かなる決闘

Release Date: 1949-03-19

Duration: 95 minutes

Synopsis

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's 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.

Casting

  • Toshirō Mifune
    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
  • Takashi Shimura
    Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
  • Chieko Nakakita
    Takiko Nakada
  • Noriko Sengoku
    Apprentice Nurse
  • Kenjiro Uemura
    Susumu Nakada
  • Wakayo Matsumura
    Student Nurse
  • Kisao Tobita
    Boy with typhoid
  • Miki Sanjō
    Misao Matsumoto
  • Tadashi Date
    Father of boy with appendicitis
  • Hiroko Machida
    Nurse Imai

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