Quiet duel

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The Quiet Duel (also known as Silent Duel) is a 1949 daiei drama film,Directed by Akira Kurosawa.

## Plot

Kyouji Fujisaki, is a youth doctor that works in the military as a doctor at a field hospital during the war, accidentally injured his finger during surgery on his patient Nakata and became infected with his syphilis. After returning to work, he decided to work at his father's obstetrics and gynecology clinic, but he is unable to marry his fiancé Misao, hiding the infection of syphilis. Misao was suffering from the fact that Fujisaki kept a distance from himself and could not get close to him forever. One day, a trainee nurse, Rui Minegishi, eavesdrops on Fujisaki's confession of his illness to his father. Minegishi was a former dancer and had a dark past, and was reluctant to Fujisaki's sincere behavior and remarks. After that, Fujisaki fights against his own illness and silently continues to treat the patients who visit. On the other hand, Minegishi, who was able to resolve the worries about Fujisaki by hearing the secret, gradually grew humanly. At that time, Fujisaki accidentally reunited with his former patient, Nakata, and found out that he would be born with a child soon after he was married while leaving syphilis.

## Cast

* Kyoji Fujisaki: Toshiro Mifune (Toho)
* Misao Matsumoto: Miki Sanjo
* Takayuki Fujisaki: Takashi Shimura (Toho)
* Susumu Nakata: Kenjiro Uemura
* Police Officer Nosaka: Isamu Yamaguchi
* Rui Minegishi: Noriko Sengoku (Toho)
* Takita Nakata: Chieko Nakakita (Toho)
* Antique shop: Kenichi Miyajima
* Old soldier: Masatoki Sasaki
* Police Officer : Shizuharu Izumi
* Appe's father: Date Tadashi
* Assistant Manager: Shiroyuki Miyajima
* Chief of Health: Junnosuke Miyazaki
* Gibbs Youth: Kisao Tobita
* Worker: Takami Nuki
* Appe's mother: Tsuneko Sudo
* Mii-chan: Hatsuko Wakahara
* Nurse Imai: Hiroko Machida
* Apprentice nurse: Wakayo Matsumura
* Clerk: Yuko Ikegami
* Appe Boy: Shigeru Matsumoto
* Boy: Yosuke Kudo

## Staff

* Director: Akira Kurosawa
* Planning: Shojiro Motoki , Hisao Ichikawa
* Original: Kazuo Kikuta from "Abortion Doctor"
* Script: Akira Kurosawa, Chikichi Taniguchi
* Photo: Misao Aisaka
* Music: Akira Ifukube
* Art: Koichi Imai
* Costume: Shige Fujiki
* Edit: Masanori Tsujii
* Sound effect: Katsujiro Hanaoka

## Titles

* Silent Duel (Original Japanese title)
* The Quiet Duel (Original Japanese[1]Worldwide release title)

## Overview

A human drama that seriously took up the illness "syphilis", which was said to be an incurable disease during the war. A young military doctor Fujisaki who was infected with syphilis during surgery at a field hospital. Even after demobilization, he keeps his lover Misao away, fighting the disease for the rest of his life without telling anyone, and decides to live as a single person. A conscientious work depicting a single doctor fighting life quietly, while desperately desperately receiving an incurable disease from a soldier who saved his life as a military doctor.

## Work description

Is the original of this work "abortionist" is Minoru Chiaki troupe is to preside over rose seat by, 1947 from October (1947) day play small theater has been staged in. Cast is Chiaki is Fujisaki role, Sasaki 踏繪 is Minegishi role of Chiaki wife, Taeko Takasugi played is Misao role, directing is the father-in-law of Chiaki Takamaru Sasaki was in charge  . Kurosawa happened to be watching the stage and was impressed by it, so the project was planned. As a result, Chiaki became a regular actor in the later Kurosawa movie.

At that time, Toho , to which Kurosawa belongs, had difficulty shooting movies due to the third Toho dispute . Kurosawa left Toho by establishing a film art association with Kojiro Yamamoto , Chikichi Taniguchi , Shojiro Motoki and others, and was forced to make other companies. The first film is this work, and since then , I have been filming " stray dogs ", " homura ", " Rashomon ", and " idiot " at other companies.

## Release

the film was originally released in japan by daiei (as the company's first ever film) on March 13, 1949.

### DVD

#### U.S. release

*Quiet Duel* was originally 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".

## Awards

* The 23rd Kinema Junpo Best Ten 8th place
* The 4th Mainichi Film Competition Actor Performance Award (Takashi Shimura)