Rusty Knife (1958)

Original title

錆びたナイフ

Directed by

Toshio Masuda

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 30m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A former gangster tries to leave his criminal past behind but gets pulled back in when an old enemy resurfaces. Set in postwar Japan, it follows his struggle to protect a woman and confront his violent history.

tensemelancholicbleakgrittynoir atmospherelanguidurbansuspenseful

What happens

Rusty Knife (Japanese: 錆びたナイフ, Hepburn: Sabita naifu) is a 1958 Japanese action 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 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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