The Challenge
- Released on
- Runtime
- 89 mins
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.
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
- Tatsuo Umemiya
- Mayumi Ozora
- Hitomi Nakahara
- Tetsuro Tamba
- Eitarō Ozawa
- Yūko Kusunoki
- Kappei Matsumoto
- Shunji Kasuga
- Takashi Kanda
- Ken Sudo
- Isamu Yamaguchi
- Rinichi Yamamoto
- Mitsuo Andō
- Tadashi Suganuma
- Eiran Yoshikawa
- Nobuo Yana
- Sanae Mitsuoka
- Akikane Sawa
- Chico Lourant
Director
- Kinji Fukasaku
Producers
Screenwriter
- Susumu Saji
