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The Challenge

7.0

1h 29m

1962

Synopsis

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.

Director

Kinji Fukasaku

CrimeAction

insane asylumjapanese noirtrade newspaperrevoltionary governmenthigh level skulduggeryfemme fatale spy

Cast & Crew

Koji Tsuruta

Koji Tsuruta

as Kuroki

Tatsuo Umemiya

Tatsuo Umemiya

Mayumi Ozora

Mayumi Ozora

Hitomi Nakahara

Hitomi Nakahara

as Hiromi

Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

as Takayama

Eitarō Ozawa

Eitarō Ozawa

Yūko Kusunoki

Yūko Kusunoki

as Marin

Kappei Matsumoto

Shunji Kasuga

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