THU MAY 12, 2022 7:00 PM

THE QUIET DUEL

$8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission)

Los Feliz 3 | Takashi Shimura Retrospective 

Rare 35mm Print courtesy of the Japan Foundation. 

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  • RELEASED IN: 1949
  • 95 MINUTES
  • DIRECTED BY: AKIRA KUROSAWA

ABOUT THE FILM:

Based on a play by Kazuo Kikuta, this early Akira Kurosawa film follows 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 needs to find the faith to return to his work helping save people’s lives including the man from whom he contracted the disease. Starring Toshiro Mifune and Takashi Shimura.

FORMAT: 35mm

DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films