The Challenge (movie)
誇り高き挑戦- User score: 7
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Kinji Fukasaku
- Production companies: Toei Company
- Genre: Crime, Action
- Release date: 3/28/1962
- Run time: 89 min.
Movie 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.
