The Quiet Duel

When I started watching Shizukanaru kettô - The Quiet Duel I thought I was going to watch a movie with action of some sort. I quickly learned it was a pure drama movie. Not that I regretted watching it for one second.

The movie is about a young doctor that contracts syphilis during an operation during war, and his struggle against his desires and how that affect him and his surroundings. Among those people it is mostly about his fiancé and a nurse at the hospital.

I think the actors did great and Kurosawa once again succeeded in making the characters in his movie come to life and feel like real humans and tell a gripping tale.

I have to say I enjoyed the movie immensely, but I would only recommend it to people that are into drama and interested in the Japanese culture and the Japanese way in general.