The Silent Duel DVD
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Film Details
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Produced in 1949
Main Language - Japanese
Countries & Regions - Asian Film, Japanese Film
Film Description
Toshiro Mifune, in his second role for Kurosawa, plays Kyoji Fujisaki, a young doctor who contracts syphilis from a patient during wartime surgery in the South Pacific. After the war, he returns to his fiancée whom he rejects without explanation to protect her from the disease. He then must deal with his own frustration as well as the stigma of carrying the disease.
DVD Details
Certificate: 15
Publisher: Yume Pictures
Length: 91 mins
Aspect ratio: 4:3 Full Frame
Region: 2
Cat No: YUME023
Format: DVD B&W
Subtitles: English
Community Reviews
by Peter Wild on 8th October 2007
If Akira Kurosawa’s first foray into police procedurals Stray Dog could
arguably be referred to as something of a dress rehearsal for his later
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