The Challenge
28/03/1962
1h 29m



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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
Kuroki


Tatsuo Umemiya


Mayumi Ozora


Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi


Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama


Eitarō Ozawa


Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
Shunji Kasuga


Takashi Kanda


Ken Sudo


Isamu Yamaguchi
President


Rinichi Yamamoto


Mitsuo Andō
Tadashi Suganuma
Eiran Yoshikawa


Nobuo Yana
Sanae Mitsuoka
Robert's secretary


Akikane Sawa


Chico Lourant
Sam
Clifford Harrington
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