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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