The Quiet Duel(静かなる決闘)
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Japan · 1949
1h 35m
Director Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura
Genre Drama
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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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