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.
- Year : 1962
- Country : Japan
- Genre : Crime, Action
- Studio : Toei Company
- Keyword : insane asylum, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy
- Director : Kinji Fukasaku
- Cast : Koji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Mayumi Ozora, Hitomi Nakahara, Tetsuro Tamba, Eitarō Ozawa