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. Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
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