Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife (1958)

錆びたナイフ

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

Date of release
1958-03-11
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (17)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Thriller, Action, Crime
Director
Toshio Masuda

Casting

Interesting facts

Rusty Knife is a 1958 Japanese action film directed by Toshio Masuda. Rusty Knife was part of the Nikkatsu film studio's wave of Japanese noir films, made in order to compete with popular American and French films at the Japanese box office. The film became more widely available outside Japan when Janus Films released a special set of Nikkatsu noir films on DVD, as part of The Criterion Collection. The other films in the set are A Colt Is My Passport, Take Aim at the Police Van, Cruel Gun Story, and I Am Waiting.

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