Quiet Duel DVD

• 2.0 Dolby Digital (Japanese)
• Original Japanese theatrical trailer
• News report from the set of the movie
• Interview with cinematographer Setsuo Kobayashi, actress Miki Sanjo and composer Akira Ifukube
• Liner notes by Stuart Galbraith IV, author of The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune

Director: Akira Kurosawa
Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Noriko Sengoku, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita, Miki Sanjo

Directed by Akira Kurosawa (Seven Samurai, Ikiru) and based on an acclaimed play Kazuo Kikuta, The Quiet Duel marked the second of numerous collaborations with Toshiro Mifune, a partnership likened to those of John Ford & John Wayne, and Martin Scorsese & Robert De Niro.

During a life-saving operation army surgeon Fujisaki (legendary actor Toshiro Mifune) contaminates himself with syphilis, a disease virtually incurable in 1940's Japan. After the war he returns to work at the hospital maintained by his obstetrician father (Takashi Shimura) but agonizes over the disease that threatens to destroy his impending marriage, while simultaneously trying to save other patients' lives - including the man from whom he contracted the disease.