The Challenge (1962)

• 59%
• 1962
• Action
• Crime
• Kinji Fukasaku
• Koji Tsuruta
• Tatsuo Umemiya
• Mayumi Ozora

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.