Rusty Knife
Toshio Masuda · 1958
A 1958 Nikkatsu crime drama starring Yūjirō Ishihara as an ex-convict resisting vengeance while a district attorney pursues the same syndicate. Directed by Toshio Masuda with tight, low-key noir aesthetics and a script by Shintarō Ishihara, it foregrounds moral exhaustion over action, ambiguity over catharsis.