Slideshow
PREVIOUSLY PLAYED
THE QUIET DUEL
静かなる決闘
Thursday, February 17 at 6:15
Japan, 1949
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjo, Takashi Shimura
35mm print courtesy of The Japan Foundation. Approx. 95 min.
During surgery in a leaky tent at the jungle front, Dr. Fujisaki (Mifune) is infected with syphilis, then must decide what to do when he returns to an expectant fiancée back home. With Takashi Shimura as his doctor dad; and the opening operation scene a 21-shot tour de force. Kurosawa/Mifune’s rarest film, in a specially-imported print.