The Challenge(1962)

movie - first aired/released 1962-03-28 - 89 min - audience 7.4

Crime, Action

Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

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.