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Rusty Knife is a 1958 action Japanese 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 only 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.
Original Release
03/11/1958
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yûjirô Ishihara | Yukihiko Tachibana |
Mie Kitahara | Keiko Nishida |
Akira Kobayashi | Makoto Terada |
Mari Shiraki | Yuri |
Shôji Yasui | Prosecutor Karita |
Jô Shishido | Shimabara |
Naoki Sugiura | Seiji Katsumata |
Masao Shimizu | Shingo Mano |
Kaoru Kusuda | |
Toshio Takahara | Takaishi |
Directors
Writers
Toshio Masuda, Shintarô Ishihara
Cast
Name | Character |
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Yûjirô Ishihara | Yukihiko Tachibana |
Mie Kitahara | Keiko Nishida |
Akira Kobayashi | Makoto Terada |
Mari Shiraki | Yuri |
Shôji Yasui | Prosecutor Karita |
Jô Shishido | Shimabara |
Naoki Sugiura | Seiji Katsumata |
Masao Shimizu | Shingo Mano |
Kaoru Kusuda | |
Toshio Takahara | Takaishi |
Nobuo Kawakami | Detective Kanô |
Keiko Amaji | Yôko |
Kyosuke Aihara | Muramatsu |
Saburo Hiromatsu | Akira Mano |
Shirô Yanase | Takada |
Zenji Yamada | |
Sanpei Mine | |
Tomio Aoki | |
Noriko Watari | Tamae |
Gô Kuroda | Innkeeper |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Takiko Mizunoe | Producer |