The Challenge

Name: The Challenge
Uploaded: 1962-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 89 min
Description: 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.

7.00
January 1962
89 min

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.

Type:
MOVIE
Country:
JP
Genres:
Crime, Action
Release:
March 1962
Production:
Toei Company
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, Clifford Harrington
Tags:
insane asylum, japanese noir, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy

The Challenge

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