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- Program Title: The Quiet Duel
- EASC Code: JQ-01
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Movie & TV Drama
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: DVD
- Director: Akira Kurosawa
- Producer: Hisao Ichiikawa and Sojiro Motoki
- Release Date: 1949
- Running Time: 95 min.
- Color or BW: BW
- Program Abstract: During a life-saving operation army surgeon Fujisaki (legendary actor Toshiro Mifune) contaminates himself with syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in the 1940's Japan. After the war he returns to work at the hospital maintained by his obstertrician father (Takashi Shimura) but agonizes over the disease that threatens to destroy his impending marriage, while simultaneously trying to save other patients' lives -- including the man from whom he contracted the disease.
- Data Entry Date: 11/20/2006
