Rusty Knife
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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?
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Cast
27 people
Yūjirō Ishihara
Yukihiko Tachibana
Known for
Crazed Fruit
Mie Kitahara
Keiko Nishida
Known for
Crazed Fruit
The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice
Toshio Masuda
Also in
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Shintarô Ishihara
Masaru Satô
Takiko Mizunoe
Also in
The Invisible Man Appears
Sandakan No. 8
Shōji Yasui
Prosecutor Karita
Known for
The Burmese Harp
Masanori Tsujii
Joe Shishido
Shimabara
Known for
Branded to Kill
Youth of the Beast
Kuratarô Takamura
Akira Kobayashi
Makoto Terada
Known for
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Takashi Matsuyama
Known for
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
Uzumaki
Toshio Masuda Director · Shintarō Ishihara Screenplay Masaru Satō Composer
First release March 11, 1958 · Produced in Japan · Languages French, Japanese
Production
Nikkatsu Corporation
Production
Okura Film
Production
Japan
Produced in
Languages
Original title
錆びたナイフ
Original language
Japanese
Spoken on screen
French · Japanese
Release dates
Japan · March 11, 1958
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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