Shizukanaru Ketto

by Akira KUROSAWA, Japan, 1949
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At the end of the war, doctor Fujisaki is wounded during an emergency operation in the hospital. A little later he notices that the patient is suffering from syphilis and that he has infected himself. Fearing to pass on the disease, he breaks up with his fiancée after the war and silently fights his illness with the means available at the time. His former patient, however, lives carelessly and marries; his deformed child is born dead. The "Arztfilm" was a popular genre in the post-war years, especially in Germany. Kurosawa, who had already focused on a doctor in Drunken Angel the year before, adapted a successful play here.

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Original TitleShizukanaru Ketto
TitleShizukanaru Ketto
Directed byAkira KUROSAWA
CountryJapan
Year1949
ScreenplayKazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Film EditingMasanori Tsujii
SoundtrackAkira Ifukube
CinematographySoichi Aisaka
SoundMitsuo Hasegawa
Costumes
Production DesignKoichi Imai
ProductionHisao Ichikawa, Sojiro Motoki
FormatsHD, Blu-ray
Runtime95 min.
LanguageJapanisch/d
CastToshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita

Credits

Original TitleShizukanaru Ketto
TitleShizukanaru Ketto
Directed byAkira KUROSAWA
CountryJapan
Year1949
ScreenplayKazuo Kikuta, Akira Kurosawa, Senkichi Taniguchi
Film EditingMasanori Tsujii
SoundtrackAkira Ifukube
CinematographySoichi Aisaka
SoundMitsuo Hasegawa
Costumes
Production DesignKoichi Imai
ProductionHisao Ichikawa, Sojiro Motoki
FormatsHD, Blu-ray
Runtime95 min.
LanguageJapanisch/d
CastToshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Miki Sanjo, Kenjiro Uemura, Chieko Nakakita

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