Rusty Knife
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| Rusty Knife | |
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| Directed by | Toshio Masuda |
| Written by | Shintaro Ishihara |
| Produced by | Takiko Mizunoe |
| Starring | Yujiro Ishihara |
| Cinematography | Kurataro Takamura |
| Edited by | Masanori Tsujii |
| Music by | Masaru Sato |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Rusty Knife (Japanese: 錆びたナイフ, Hepburn: Sabita naifu) is a 1958 Japanese action film directed by Toshio Masuda.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.
Yukihiko Tachibana is an ex-convict trying to begin a new life after he is released from prison. Unable to forget the rape and consequent suicide of his girlfriend, he seeks revenge against a crime syndicate while resisting the urge to kill again. Meanwhile, the district attorney Karita and his men try to build a case against the same syndicate.[5][6]
