The Challenge

The Challenge

Release Date: 1962-03-28

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.

Rating: 7 / 10

Crew

  • Kinji Fukasaku - Director

  • Tomomichi Araki - Art Direction

  • Mikio Koyama - Assistant Director

  • Ichirō Hoshijima - Director of Photography

  • Susumu Saji - Screenplay

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