Rusty Knife
錆びたナイフ (original)
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.
Starring Yûjirô Ishihara, Mie Kitahara, Shōji Yasui, Jō Shishido, Akira Kobayashi, Masao Shimizu, Naoki Sugiura, Toshio Takahara, Shigeru Amachi, Mari Shiraki
Watch "Rusty Knife" on Criterion Channel released in 1958. It's a action & adventure and crime movie, and has a rating of 6.7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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