The Quiet Duel (1949)
Shizukanaru kettô (original title)

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
	Toshirô Mifune	...	Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki
	Takashi Shimura	...	Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki
	Miki Sanjô	...	Misao Matsumoto
	Kenjiro Uemura	...	Susumu Nakada
	Chieko Nakakita	...	Takiko Nakada
	Noriko Sengoku	...	Apprentice Nurse Rui Minegishi
	Jyonosuke Miyazaki	...	Cpl. Horiguchi
	Isamu Yamaguchi	...	Patrolman Nosaka
	Shigeru Matsumoto	...	Boy with appendicitis
	Hiroko Machida	...	Nurse Imai
	Kan Takami	...	Laborer
	Kisao Tobita	...	Boy with typhoid
	Shigeyuki Miyajima	...	Officer
	Tadashi Date	...	Father of boy with appendicitis
	Etsuko Sudo	...	Mother of boy with appendicitis

Storyline

In 1944, in WWII, Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki cuts his finger with the scalpel during a surgery in a field hospital and is infected by spirochete from his patient Susumu Nakada. After the blood test, he realizes that he has contracted syphilis, but he does not have the necessary medicine to treat the disease. He advises Nakada to seek medical treatment for his disease. In 1946, after the war, he breaks off his six years engagement with his beloved fiancée Misao Matsumoto but he does not tell the truth but lets her go and find another man to get married. The hopeless apprentice, nurse Rui Minegishi, witnesses Kioji injecting Salvarsan to treat his syphilis, and first she misunderstands why the doctor is sick. Later, after discovering the truth about his disease, she changes her behavior and becomes the confident listener of the doctor's inner feelings. When Kyoji accidentally meets Nakada in the police station of his town and finds that his wife is pregnant... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  

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