The Quiet Duel
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Call Number: DVD FLC-JPN Quiet
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Originally produced as motion picture in 1949.
Based on the work of Kazuo Kikuta.
Special features: interviews with cinematographer Setsuo Kobayashi, actress Miki Sanjo and composer Akira Ifukube; original Japanese theatrical trailer; news reel footage from the set of the film; photo gallery; liner notes by film critic Stuart Galbraith.
Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Sengoku, Miki Sanjo.
"During a life-saving operation, army surgeon Fujisaki (Mifune) contaminates himself with syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in 1940s Japan. After the war, he returns to work at the hospital maintained by his obstetrician father (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"--Container.
DVD, region 1; mono. sound; aspect ratio 1.33:1.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
Outstanding Movie! Don't miss it. submitted by Tassos on October 7, 2019, 7:34am Another Major hit by Kurosawa. Outstanding! Drop the Hollywood BS that has turned your brains into mush and see this MASTERPIECE instead.
SERIES
The directors series.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In Japanese with optional English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
Newbury Park, CA : distributed by BCI Eclipse Co., [between 2000 and 2006]
Year Published: 2006
Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Kurosawa, Akira, 1910-1998.
Mifune, Toshirō, 1920-1997.
Sengoku, Noriko.
Shimura, Takashi, 1905-1982.
Sanjō, Miki.
Ifukube, Akira, 1914-2006.
Kikuta, Kazuo, 1908-1973.
Daiē, Kabushiki Kaisha.
Ronin Entertainment.
BCI Eclipse Company.
黒澤明, 1910-1998.
三船敏郎, 1920-1997.
千石規子.
三条美紀.
大映株式會社.
SUBJECTS
Syphilis -- Treatment -- Japan -- Drama.
Surgeons -- Japan -- Drama.
Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama.
Feature films -- Japan.
Motion pictures -- Japan.
Japanese language materials.