The Challenge

03/28/1962

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1hr 29min

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Crime

,Action

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Koji Tsuruta
  • Tatsuo Umemiya
  • Mayumi Ozora
  • Hitomi Nakahara
  • Tetsuro Tamba

    Directors

  • Kinji Fukasaku
  • Mikio Koyama

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Toei Company

    Production Countries

  • Japan

LANGUAGES

  • Japanese