The Challenge
1962-03-28
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1h 29m
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Crime
Action
User Score
4 votes
Overview
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.
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Susumu Saji
Writer
