Rusty Knife

Mar 11, 1958

1h 30m

★ 5.9

Overview

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a laughing, self-confident thug. The D.A. gets an anonymous letter about the suicide five years' before of a city council member. Evidence about the case leads the D.A. to Tachibana, struggling to go straight after involvement with the mob and a prison sentence for killing the man responsible for the rape and suicide of his fiancée. One of Tachibana's friends is Keiko, the daughter of the dead councilman and the ward of another powerful official. How do these stories connect?

Genres

Thriller

Action

Crime

Production Companies

Nikkatsu Corporation

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Cast

Yukihiko Tachibana

Yūjirō Ishihara

Keiko Nishida

Mie Kitahara

Prosecutor Karita

Shōji Yasui

Shimabara

Jō Shishido

Makoto Terada

Akira Kobayashi

Shingo Mano

Masao Shimizu

Seiji Katsumata

Naoki Sugiura

Takaishi

Toshio Takahara

Shigeru Amachi

Yuri

Mari Shiraki

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