Shizukanaru kettô 1949
Directed by Akira Kurosawa | Starring: Toshirō Mifune, Miki Sanjō, Takashi Shimura, Kenjiro Uemura
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.