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The Challenge
The Challenge
Crime, Action 03/28/1962

The Challenge (1962)

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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.

Kinji Fukasaku

Director

Susumu Saji

Screenplay