The Challenge

Name: The Challenge
Genre: Crime, Action
Released: 1962-03-28
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 7.4

1h 29m Japanese

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The Challenge

1h 29m Japanese

Crime Action

#insane asylum #japanese noir #trade newspaper #revoltionary government #high level skulduggery #femme fatale spy

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

Screenplay Susumu Saji