The Quiet Duel
1949
Drama | 19 March 1949
Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjō, Takashi Shimura
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.