The Quiet Duel
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| 静かなる決闘 The Quiet Duel |
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| Directed by | Akira Kurosawa |
| Starring | Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura |
| Music by | Akira Ifukube |
| Cinematography | Soichi Aisaka |
| Distributed by | Daei |
| Release date(s) | 13 March 1949 |
| Running time | 95 min |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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The Quiet Duel is the English title for 静かなる決闘 (Shizukanaru ketto), a 1949 film directed by Akira Kurosawa.
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Toshiro Mifune (in the second of many films with Kurosawa), plays a young idealistic doctor, still a virgin, who works with his father (Takashi Shimura) and fiancée in a small and seedy clinic. However, 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 and celibacy, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
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| Japanese Cinema |  |
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| Films directed by Akira Kurosawa | ||
| 1940s | Sanshiro Sugata | The Most Beautiful | Sanshiro Sugata Part II | The Men Who Tread On the Tiger's Tail | Those Who Make Tomorrow | No Regrets for Our Youth | One Wonderful Sunday | Drunken Angel | The Quiet Duel | Stray Dog | |
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| 1950s | Scandal | Rashomon | The Idiot | Ikiru | Seven Samurai | I Live in Fear | Throne of Blood | The Lower Depths | The Hidden Fortress | |
| 1960s | The Bad Sleep Well | Yojimbo | Sanjuro | High and Low | Red Beard | |
| 1970s | Dodesukaden | Dersu Uzala | |
| 1980s | Kagemusha | Ran | |
| 1990s | Dreams | Rhapsody in August | Madadayo | |
