Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife

90 mins | Crime, Action, Thriller | March 11, 1958

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?

Rusty Knife

90 mins | Crime, Action, Thriller | March 11, 1958

Rusty Knife
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?
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers Nikkatsu Corporation
Original title 錆びたナイフ
Directors Kazuo Kawabe, Toshio Masuda
Writers Shintarō Ishihara, Toshio Masuda

Cast

Yûjirô Ishihara

as Yukihiko Tachibana

Mie Kitahara

as Keiko Nishida

Shōji Yasui

as Prosecutor Karita

Joe Shishido

as Shimabara

Akira Kobayashi

as Makoto Terada

Masao Shimizu

as Shingo Mano

Naoki Sugiura

as Seiji Katsumata

Toshio Takahara

as Takaishi

Mari Shiraki

as Yuri