35mm

Rusty Knife

Sabita naifu
Toshio Masuda

All bets are off when two gangsters, desperately trying to go straight, witness the wrong murder in this harbor-set noir thriller from Nikkatsu action maven Masuda.

DIRECTOR
Toshio Masuda
YEAR
1958
COUNTRY
Japan
RUNTIME
90 minutes
LANGUAGE
Japanese with English subtitles
FORMAT
35mm
ORIGINAL TITLE
Sabita naifu

Shady pasts come back to haunt two ex-thugs after going straight in this hit first feature from Toshio Masuda that cemented his place in the Nikkatsu action pantheon. Years after Tachibana (studio star Yujiro Ishihara) and Makoto (future big-shot Akira Kobayashi) accidentally witness a murder by a local crime heavy, a third witness threatens to sing like a canary, bringing Tachibana and Makoto’s names bubbling back to the surface in this stellar jazzy noir.

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