The Challenge
誇り高き挑戦
Release: 1962-03-28
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 7.0
Crime
Action
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.
Production Countries
Japan
Production Companies
Toei Company