Film
The Challenge
1962Directed by Kinji Fukasaku
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
About The Challenge
- Crime
- Action
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
- Writer
- Susumu Saji
- Original title
- 誇り高き挑戦
