The Challenge
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.
Release date
28/03/1962
Votes
5
Popularity
0.6
Koji Tsuruta
Kuroki
Tatsuo Umemiya
Mayumi Ozora
Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama
Eitarō Ozawa
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
Shunji Kasuga
Takashi Kanda
Ken Sudo
Isamu Yamaguchi
President
Rinichi Yamamoto
Mitsuo Andō
Tadashi Suganuma
Eiran Yoshikawa
Nobuo Yana
Sanae Mitsuoka
Robert's secretary
Akikane Sawa
Chico Lourant
Sam
Cliff Harrington
Original Soundtrack
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OSARU-CHAN
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Greed in Broad Daylight
The Threat
Behind Locked Doors
Intimidation
Mystery Men
Good-for-Nothing
Cash Calls Hell
The Warped Ones
Yellow Line
Tokyo Drifter
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous
A Killer's Key
I Am Waiting
Rusty Knife
Cruel Gun Story