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.

Keywords: nurse, surgeon, syphillis, doctor, field-hospital,

Title: The Quiet Duel
Imdb rate: 7.4
Imdb votes: 3,262
Year: 1949
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Kazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Actors:
Toshirô Mifune
Takashi Shimura
Miki Sanjô

Awards: 1 win