Film
The Challenge
Japan- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Year
- 1962
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.
Top cast
Directed by
Kinji Fukasaku
Written by
Susumu Saji
