Science in the Cinema - The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto)

Date: Wed, July 30th 2008
Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.
External Link: Event Website
Related Series: Science in the Cinema - Free Film Series
Event Tags: The Movies
Location: AFI Silver Theatre & Cultural Center

The Quiet Duel (Shizukanaru Ketto)
Date:	July 30
Time:	7:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Location:	AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, Silver Spring, MD
Guest Speaker:	Robert Martensen, M.D., Ph.D., Director, and David Cantor, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Office of NIH History, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health
Medical Themes:	History of Medicine, Syphilis

	NOTE: *Filmed in Japanese -- will be shown with English subtitles* One of legendary director Akira Kurosawa's early works, this film follows the travails of Kyoji Fujisaki (Toshiro Mifune), a young doctor whose life is turned upside down when he contracts syphilis during a wartime surgery. Distancing himself from his fiancée, Fujisaki suffers in silence, shamed by what his life has become. When he encounters the man who infected him, the doctor forces him to take responsibility for the lives he's affected.

	Starring:	Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita, Noriko Sengoku, Jyonosuke Miyazaki, Isamu Yamaguchi, Shigeru Matsumoto, Hiroko Machida, Kan Takami Kisao Tobita, Shigeyuki Miyajima, Tadashi Date, Etsuko Sudo
	Genre:	Drama
	Year:	1949
	Run Time:	1 hour, 35 minutes
	Rating:	Not rated.