The Challenge
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- Action
- Crime
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.
Keywords
- insane asylum
- japanese noir
- trade newspaper
- revoltionary government
- high level skulduggery
- femme fatale spy
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 28, 1962
- Original language
- Japanese
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan
- Production
- Toei Company
- Cast
- Hitomi Nakahara,Akikane Sawa,Rinichi Yamamoto,Tatsuo Umemiya,Eitarō Ozawa,Kappei Matsumoto,Tetsuro Tamba,Sanae Mitsuoka,Yūko Kusunoki,Isamu Yamaguchiand 11 more
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer
- Susumu Saji
- Cinematography
- Ichirō Hoshijima
- Music
- Koichi Kawabe
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0056074