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The Challenge

Crime
Action
89 mins
7.0
1962

Description

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.

Casts:

Koji Tsuruta
Tatsuo Umemiya
Mayumi Ozora
Hitomi Nakahara
Tetsuro Tamba
Eitarō Ozawa
Yūko Kusunoki
Kappei Matsumoto

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