The Challenge (1962)

03/28/1962 (JP) • 1h 29m

Crime, Action

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.


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Status

Released

Original Language

Japanese

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

insane asylum

japanese noir

trade newspaper

revoltionary government

high level skulduggery

femme fatale spy

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