The Challenge
28/03/1962
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.
Movie Information
Koji Tsuruta
as Kuroki
Tatsuo Umemiya
as
Mayumi Ozora
as
Hitomi Nakahara
as Hiromi
Tetsuro Tamba
as Takayama
Eitarō Ozawa
as
Yūko Kusunoki
as Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
as
Shunji Kasuga
as
Takashi Kanda
as
Ken Sudo
as
Isamu Yamaguchi
as President
Rinichi Yamamoto
as
Mitsuo Andō
as
Tadashi Suganuma
as
Eiran Yoshikawa
as
Nobuo Yana
as
Sanae Mitsuoka
as Robert's secretary
Akikane Sawa
as
Chico Lourant
as Sam
Clifford Harrington
as
