Postwar Kurosawa: The Quiet Duel
The Quiet Duel (静かなる決闘)1949, DaieiProd. Soujiro Motoki, Hisao IchikawaDir. Akira Kurosawa Writer Senkichi Taniguchi, Akira Kurosawa, Cinematography Souichi Aizaka, Music Akira IfukubeToshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura, Miki Sanjo, Noriko Sengoku In March 1948, Kurosawa, Soujiro Motoki, Kajiro Yamamoto and Senkichi Taniguchi formed “Eiga Geijutu Kyoukai (Cinema Art Society)”. Toho was at the last stage of Labor Union Conflict at the time and not a good place to direct a film. Kurosawa was deeply disappointed with the Union movement and left Toho for Daiei to direct his next film. “The Quiet Duel” is based on popular stage play, “Abortion Doctor”, by …