The Challenge
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: Koji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Mayumi Ozora, Hitomi Nakahara, Tetsuro Tamba, Eitarō Ozawa, Yūko Kusunoki, Kappei Matsumoto, Shunji Kasuga, Takashi Kanda, Ken Sudo, Isamu Yamaguchi, Rinichi Yamamoto
Crew: Kinji Fukasaku (Director), Susumu Saji (Screenplay), Kazuichi Yoshida (Lighting Technician), Ichirō Hoshijima (Director of Photography), Mikio Koyama (Assistant Director)
Keyword:
The Challenge 1962
insane asylum
japanese noir
trade newspaper
revoltionary government
high level skulduggery
femme fatale spy
Toei Company
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