The Challenge

19621h 29mMovie

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.

• Crime
• Action
• Insane Asylum
• Japanese Noir
• Trade Newspaper
• Revoltionary Government
• High Level Skulduggery
• Femme Fatale Spy