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Rusty Knife

Sabita Knife

Japan

1958

90 Min
Black and White
2.35:1
Japanese
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DIR Toshio Masuda

PROD Takiko Mizunoe

SCR Shintaro Ishihara, Toshio Masuda

DP Kurataro Takamura

CAST Yujiro Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Akira Kobayashi, Shoji Yasui, Mari Shiraki, Jô Shishido

ED Masayoshi Tsujii

MUSIC Masaru Satô

New York (Masterworks)

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Rusty Knife was the first smash for director Toshio Masuda, who would go on to become one of Japanese cinema’s major hit makers. In the film, Yujiro Ishihara and fellow top Nikkatsu star Akira Kobayashi play former hoodlums trying to leave behind a life of crime, but their past comes back to haunt them when the authorities seek them out as murder witnesses. —The Criterion Collection

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Lightweight in script and nothing to write home about direction, except that it is over-acted and under-achieved. The only redeeming factor was the big budget black and white photography.

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Rusty Knife

By asuraf on September 25, 2010
Ever busy Yojiro Ishihara stars in this gritty noir as an ex-gangster who gets roped back into the game when an aggressive D.A. tries to turn him into a witness against a ruthless gang leader, but the…

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