Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife
Directed byToshio Masuda
Written byShintaro Ishihara
Produced byNikkatsu, Takiko Mizunoe
StarringYujiro Ishihara
CinematographyKurataro Takamura
Edited byMasanori Tsujii
Music byMasaru Sato
Release date
  • March 11, 1958 (1958-03-11)[1]
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Rusty Knife (錆びたナイフ, Sabita naifu) is a 1958 action Japanese 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 only 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.

Plot

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]

Cast

References

  1. ^ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch001080.htm accessed 15 January 2009
  2. ^ "錆びたナイフとは". kotobank. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ Blakeslee, David (25 October 2010). "A Journey Through The Eclipse Series: Toshio Masuda's Rusty Knife". CriterionCast. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  5. ^ 日活アクションの華麗な世界：1954-1971 第二章 ヒーロー像の定着-興隆期の様相 p.32-50 5復讐の後に広がる孤独感-「俺は待ってるぜ」「錆びたナイフ」 ISBN 4624710878
  6. ^ "錆びたナイフ". Kinema Junposha. Retrieved 2 November 2019.


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