The Quiet Duel Comments

  • Zane 2023-01-01 13:53:56

    This long shot of Mifune should be remembered in film...

  • Rubye 2022-12-21 06:24:14

    It can be compared with Akira Kurosawa's "Wild Dogs" in the second half of the same year. It is two sides of the same idea: it accuses Japan of the impact of the war of aggression on different groups of people. The whole film is extremely forbearing from the story setting to the characters, and even carries an inexplicable feeling of suffocation from beginning to end (note: it is not depression, it is suffocation...). The role of Toshiro Mifune here may be one of his most disciplined and almost...

  • Dejah 2022-12-04 07:37:09

    Akira Kurosawa's "saint" role is too out of touch with the "modern"...

  • Elias 2022-11-29 02:14:39

    Both doctors are benevolent, not as good as "Red...

  • Helga 2022-11-11 15:41:13

    What I admire most about Akira Kurosawa in this movie is that when the doctor opens up, he doesn't say nonsense about not marrying her, but directly and generously admits his sexuality. When the story is written real, the movie has the power of...

  • Rubie 2022-10-25 12:19:05

    Battle of the heart. "He is just beside people who are more unfortunate than himself, trying to restore hope. If he is happy, he may accidentally become a poison." It is about how to face misfortune, and the dialectics of happiness and misfortune. Fight against misfortune, fight repressed desires. The sense of responsibility to pursue their own political affairs in their position allows the forbearance of misfortune and pain to better complete their self-shaping, and to influence the people...

  • Haven 2022-10-24 18:52:07

    As a saint's doctor, the duel between inner desires and moral conscience, after the painful struggle, wipe away the tears and continue to do what you should do, give hope to the unfortunate, and let the people around you grow... Create such a character, in Under such a social background, the director is indeed an idealist. That inner duel scene made the characters real and three-dimensional, and Toshiro Mifune's own tragic temperament was very...

  • Westley 2022-10-24 12:09:21

    It turned out that Mifune was the first-generation abstinence-type male god, who was taciturn and set up a ring of desire and conscience in his heart to fight for a while. In the scene where the emotions were out of control, the performance of the three boats was extremely precise and forceful, but the scene of the father and son showdown and handing each other cigarettes and making fire was even more incredible. The variation of this scene can be found in a large number of later Hong Kong...

  • Kenton 2022-10-19 15:25:35

    Toshiro Mifune plays a young doctor after being...

  • Chet 2022-09-07 00:54:47

    Oriental aesthetics for males was once for the great cause, suppressing oneself, discussing devotion and suppressing emotions in the sea of ​​bitterness like an ascetic. This is the common point of China, Japan and South...

Extended Reading
  • Kaitlyn 2022-02-07 14:45:16

    very good

    It's still as good as ever. Senior Toshiro Mifune plays the role of a doctor. After learning that the patient passed on syphilis to himself, he gave up his happiness and treated the unreasonable patient more calmly, which made people moved, and reflected the character and self-cultivation of this...

  • Clay 2022-02-07 14:45:16

    The object of the duel is actually one's own desires

    Akira Kurosawa likes to make movies about doctors, the previous "Drunken Angel" and the later famous "Red Beard". As a very idealistic one in the early days, Kyoji Fujisaki, the representative of the angel in white, was unfortunately infected with syphilis during a field operation. In order not to...

The Quiet Duel quotes

  • Dr. Konosuke Fujisaki: If he had been happy, he might have become just a snob.

  • Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I thought I could forget everything when she married. But I can't!

    [He walks over to the window]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I'm fighting desperately now to curb my desires. I feel sorry for myself. Young and fastidious before the war, I suppressed it. It was the same during the war. The thought of Misao and a peaceful home sustained me!

    [His voice chokes, and he sits down on the couch]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: But one day, without having fooled around myself, my blood was contaminated by a man's diseased blood!

    [He angrily kicks over the chair]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: If I'd known it would happen... it makes me think sometimes!

    [He gets up again]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I don't know when I can satisfy my desires!

    [He turns towards Rui]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: Why must I suffer like this? I have syphilis! But it's not my fault or the result of playing around!"

    [He begins to cry]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: I'm pure yet my desires unfulfilled! It's intolerable sometimes! But my conscience tries to crush out my physical desires.

    [He throws his stethoscope]

    Dr. Kyoji Fujisaki: My stupid conscience!