The Challenge
誇り高き挑戦
1962 · 1h 29m · 7.4
Crime, Action
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.
Koji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Mayumi Ozora, Hitomi Nakahara, Tetsuro Tamba, Eitarō Ozawa, Yūko Kusunoki, Kappei Matsumoto, Shunji Kasuga, Takashi Kanda
insane asylum, japanese noir, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy