The Challenge

Action, Crime · 1962

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.

Starring

Kinji Fukasaku, Koji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Susumu Saji, Koichi Kawabe, Mayumi Ozora, Ichirô Hoshijima, Hitomi Nakahara, Tetsurō Tamba, Yozo Uchida

Director

Kinji Fukasaku