The Challenge

Overview

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

K

Kappei Matsumoto

S

Shunji Kasuga

Takashi Kanda

Production Crew

Kinji Fukasaku

Director