"Quiet Duel"
1949
Directed by Akira Kurosawa

Based on a play by Kazuo Kikuta, this early Kurosawa film concerns an army surgeon who, during a life-saving operation, contaminates himself with syphilis which, at the time, was virtually incurable. Now suffering with the dreaded disease, he is forced to abandon his fiancee but finds the faith to redouble his work to restore people to health, including the man from whom he contracted the disease. With Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Miki Sanjko. Japanese with English subtitles. 95 minutes.