Film
The Challenge
1962 · 1h 29m · Crime · Action
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- 5.9
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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.
Cast
Koji Tsuruta
Kuroki
Tatsuo Umemiya
Mayumi Ozora
Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama
Eitarō Ozawa
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
Shunji Kasuga
Takashi Kanda
Ken Sudo
Isamu Yamaguchi
President
Rinichi Yamamoto
Mitsuo Andō
Tadashi Suganuma
Eiran Yoshikawa
Crew
- Kinji FukasakuDirector
- Susumu SajiScreenplay
- Ichirō HoshijimaDirector of Photography
- Koichi KawabeOriginal Music Composer
- Hiroshi SuzukiEditor
Media
Details
- Release date
- March 28, 1962
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- Japanese
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Genres
- Crime, Action
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