The Quiet Duel

A morally rigorous postwar drama about a surgeon's silent suffering and ethical self-sacrifice in the face of accidental infection and social shame.

A young army surgeon, Kyoji Fujisaki, accidentally contracts syphilis during a WWII field operation. Back at his father’s clinic, he treats himself in secret and breaks off his engagement rather than risk his fiancée’s future, even as he confronts the irresponsible patient who infected him—testing his ethics, pride, and capacity for sacrifice.