The Challenge
Release Date: 1962-03-28
Language: JA
Country: 🇯🇵 JP
Rating:
⭐ 7.0 / 10
( 4 votes )
Runtime: 1h 29m
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.
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Cast
Koji Tsuruta
Kuroki
Tatsuo Umemiya
Mayumi Ozora
Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama
Eitarō Ozawa
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
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Kappei Matsumoto
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Shunji Kasuga
Takashi Kanda
Ken Sudo
Isamu Yamaguchi
President
