Silent Duel ( Japanese 静 か な る 決 闘 Shizukanaru Ketto Shizukanaru ), also known as Silent Duel , Silent Duel , Secret Duel - Akira Kurosawa's Japanese feature film released in 1949 . The main role is played by Toshiro Mifune . He plays a military surgeon who contracted syphilis during an operation of a wounded syphilitist, considers it impossible to recover from his illness and decides to leave his beloved bride forever. [one]
| Quiet duel | |
|---|---|
静 か な る 決 闘 | |
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| Genre | drama |
| Producer | Akira Kurosawa |
| Producer | Hisao Ichikawa Sojiro Motoki |
| Author script | Senkiti Taniguchi Akira Kurosawa Kazuo Kikuta (play) |
| In the main cast | Toshiro Mifune Takashi Shimura Noriko Sengoku Miki Sanjo |
| Operator | Soichi Aisaka |
| Composer | Akira Ifukube |
| Film company | Daiei |
| Duration | 95 minutes |
| A country |  Japan |
| Language | |
| Year | 1949 |
| IMDb | ID 0041870 |
Content
- 1 History of creation
- 2 Story
- 3 Cast
- 4 Interesting Facts
- 5 notes
- 6 References
Creation History
“Quiet Duel” is Kurosawa’s only film based on a contemporary Japanese play (by Kazuo Kikuta [2] ). According to Kurosawa, he saw her in the theater and decided that “she is good for Mifune. He has been a gangster, and now he can become a doctor. ” [3] The initial intention of the director suggested that the main character is crazy about syphilis. But when Kurosawa sent the script into censorship, he was told that he could "scare patients with syphilis and they will no longer seek medical help." Then Kurosawa abandoned the conceived ending and "decided to enter the line of tragic love."
The modern play was chosen as a script because Kurosawa did not put the film on the large Toho studio, but on the Daiei studio, so the film needed additional advertising before going on stage. [3]
Story
During the war, the young doctor Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune) accidentally contracted syphilis , having cut himself during an operation. A few years later he returned home, successfully working in his father’s small clinic and gaining a reputation as a noble and kind person, however, for no apparent reason, refused to marry a girl who had been waiting for him for six years ( Miki Sanjo ). He hides his illness and is treated secretly, realizing that if he confesses to his bride, Misao will promise to wait as long as he wants, and the treatment can take more than five years. Misao is already twenty-seven, so Kyoji, not wanting to "cripple her life," forces Misao to marry another.
One day, Kyoji accidentally meets Susuma Nakada ( Kenjiro Uemura ) - a man who infected him with syphilis. The doctor is horrified to learn that Nakada does not give a damn about treatment and neglects the danger posed to those around him; moreover, Nakada’s wife, Takiko, is pregnant. Obviously, she is also infected with syphilis. When Takiko, having learned about the incident and seeing that her husband does not blame himself for anything, leaves Nakada, he accuses Kyoji of breaking up his family. However, the disease affects his brain, so Nakada goes crazy. Takiko gives birth to a dead child.
Cast
- Toshiro Mifune - Kyoji Fujisaki ( Japanese 藤 崎 恭 二 )
- Miki Sanjou - Misao Matsumoto ( 松本 美 佐 緒 )
- Takashi Shimura - Konosuke Fujisaki ( Japanese 藤 崎 孝 之 輔 )
- Kenjiro Uemura - Susumu Nakada ( Japanese: 中 田 進 )
- Chieko Nakakita - Takiko Nakada ( Japanese: 中 田 多 樹 子 )
- Noriko Sengoku - Rui Minegushi ( Japanese 峯岸 る い )
- Hiroko Matida - Imai Nurse ( Japanese 看護 婦 今井 )
Interesting Facts
- In 1950, Takashi Shimura received the Mainity Award for Best Actor for his roles in the film Quiet Duel and Kurosawa 's other painting Homeless Dog .
Notes
- ↑ R.N. Yurenev . Lone Horseman in the Fog / Akira Kurosawa. M .: Art, 1977.
- ↑ Blair, Gavin J .. Director Senkichi Taniguchi dies at 95 , Hollywood Reporter (November 1, 2007). Date of treatment October 5, 2007.
- ↑ 1 2 Richie, Donald. The Films of Akira Kurosawa . - 3rd ed. - Berkeley : University of California Press , 1999. - T. 3. - S. 54. - 280 p. - ISBN 978-0520220379 .
Links
- Quiet Duel at the Internet Movie Database
- Quiet duel on the site allmovie