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Rusty Knife is a film of genre Thriller directed by Toshio Masuda with Yujiro Ishihara
Rusty Knife (1958)
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Add to a movie listRusty Knife (錆びたナイフ Sabita naifu) is a 1958 action Japanese 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 only 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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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.Actors
Yujiro Ishihara
(Yukihiko Tachibana)
Shōji Yasui
(Prosecutor Karita)
Mie Kitahara
(Keiko Nishida)
Joe Shishido
(Shimabara)
Akira Kobayashi
(Makoto Terada)
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