Japan
1958
90 minutes
Black and White
2.35:1
Japanese
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.
| Yukihiko Tachibana | Yujiro Ishihara |
| Keiko Nishida | Mie Kitahara |
| Makoto Terada | Akira Kobayashi |
| Prosecutor Karita | Shoji Yasui |
| Yuri | Mari Shiraki |
| Shimabara | Jo Shishido |
| Director | Toshio Masuda |
| Producer | Takiko Mizunoe |
| Screenplay | Shintaro Ishihara and Toshio Masuda |
| Cinematography | Kurataro Takamura |
| Lighting | Mitsuo Onishi |
| Recording | Fumio Hashimoto |
| Art direction | Takashi Matsuyama |
| Editing | Masayoshi Tsujii |
| Music | Masaru Sato |
| Theme song by | Yujiro Ishihara |
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