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the quiet duel (1949)

Original title: shizukanaru kettô
Production: Japan, USA|95 min| black and white
Dramatic
Poster of movie the quiet duel
a surgeon gets syphilis from a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. the doctor's life is destroyed, but unlike the patient, he doesn't destroy others along with him.

Direction

Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa: regista

Production and Screenplay

Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa: sceneggiatore
Akira KurosawaAkira Kurosawa: scrittore
Senkichi Taniguchi: sceneggiatore
Senkichi Taniguchi: scrittore
Sôjirô Motoki: produttore

Characters and Interpreters

dottor konosuke fujisaki
Takashi ShimuraTakashi Shimura(età:44)
dottor kyoji fujisaki
Toshiro MifuneToshiro Mifune(età:29)
infermiera imai
Hiroko Machida(età:25)
infermiera rui minegishi
Noriko Sengoku(età:27)
misao matsumoto
Miki Sanjo(età:21)
poliziotto nosaka
Isamu Yamaguchi(età:45)
susumu nakada
Kenjiro Uemura(età:35)
takiko, moglie di nakada
Chieko Nakakita(età:23)
...
Ken'ichi Miyajima(età:54)

Technical staff

Akira Ifukube: musiche
Masanori Tsujii: montatore