The Challenge

Overview
Cast & Crew
Production House

The Plot

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.

Run Time

1h 29m

Genre

Crime, Action

Release Date

28 Mar 1962

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

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