The Challenge

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Director :

Kinji Fukasaku

Stars :

Koji TsurutaTatsuo UmemiyaMayumi OzoraHitomi NakaharaTetsuro TambaEitarō OzawaYūko KusunokiKappei MatsumotoShunji KasugaTakashi Kanda

Genre :

CrimeAction

Release :

1962-03-28

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.