The Challenge

Name: The Challenge
Genre: Crime, Action
Released: 28 Mar 1962
Rating: 7.00
Cast: Koji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Mayumi Ozora, Hitomi Nakahara, Tetsuro Tamba

1962-03-28 Japan 89 minutes.

7.00 4 votes

Crime Action insane asylum japanese noir trade newspaper revoltionary government high level skulduggery femme fatale spy

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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.

Year 1962

Studio Toei Company

Director Kinji Fukasaku

Crew Kinji Fukasaku (Director), Susumu Saji (Screenplay), Ichirō Hoshijima (Director of Photography), Tomomichi Araki (Art Direction), Kazuichi Yoshida (Lighting Technician), Mikio Koyama (Assistant Director)

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Language 日本語