The Challenge
1962 · 89 min · Crime, Action
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer
- Susumu Saji
- Released
- March 28, 1962
- Language
- Japanese
Cast
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