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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Standard 1.33:1 (B&W) Languages: Japanese Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 1949 Running Time: 95
 Based on a play by Kazuo Kikuta, this early Akira Kurosawa film concerns an army surgeon (Mifune) 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 in his second of many film collaborations with Akira Kurosawa.
A dedicated doctor working at a field hospital contracts syphilis from a patient during surgery. Forced by this condition to live chaste, he breaks his engagement with his fiance. The agony and inner conflict the young doctor encounters is depicted on screen with Kurosawa's descriptive originality. The film was named "Tsumi Naki Batsu" while the script was being written,
Special Features:
- Original Japanese theatrical trailer
- News report from the set of the movie
- Interview with Cinematographer Setsuo Kobayashi, actress Miki Sanjo and composer Akira Ifukube.
- Liner notes by Stuart Galbraith IV, author of The Emperor and the Wolf: The Lives and Films of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
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