The Challenge

The Challenge — 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.

• Release date
• March 28, 1962
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Crime, Action
• Director
• Kinji Fukasaku

The Challenge — Cast

Koji Tsuruta Kuroki Tatsuo Umemiya Mayumi Ozora Hitomi Nakahara Hiromi Tetsuro Tamba Takayama Eitarō Ozawa Yūko Kusunoki Marin

K

Kappei Matsumoto