This will finish up our Japanese pulp for the moment. It’s a poster for a Meiko Kaji film we’d never heard of before called Rusted Flame, according to the writing at left. Though an entry for it doesn’t appear on the usually comprehensive IMDB, nor on Japanese Wikipedia, the film does exist. We found more than one Japanese blog entry on it explaining that it appeared in 1977, also stars Mikijiro Hiro and Meiko Harada, and is a mystery revolving around the kidnapping of child hemophiliacs. We saw nothing about how the giant black cat fits in, but if the tableau above is an indication there’s some seriously bad luck involved. Another thing we did not see anywhere we looked was the poster. So we’ll take credit for getting this online for the first time.