Rusty Knife

Rusty Knife
Directed byToshio Masuda
Written byShintaro Ishihara
Produced byNikkatsu, Takiko Mizunoe
StarringYujiro Ishihara
CinematographyKurataro Takamura
Edited byMasanori Tsujii
Music byMasaru Sato
Release date
  • March 11, 1958 (1958-03-11)[1]
Running time
90 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Rusty Knife (錆びたナイフ, Sabita naifu) is a 1958 action Japanese film directed by Toshio Masuda.[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.

  1. ^ (in Japanese) http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1958/ch001080.htm accessed 15 January 2009
  2. ^ "錆びたナイフとは". kotobank. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ Blakeslee, David (25 October 2010). "A Journey Through The Eclipse Series: Toshio Masuda's Rusty Knife". CriterionCast. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 28 August 2017.