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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

Interpreters and Characters

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

Technical staff

Akira Ifukube: musiche
Masanori Tsujii: montatore