The Challenge (1962)

Name: The Challenge
Genre: Action, Crime
Released: 1962-03-28
Cast: Tetsuro Tamba, Koji Tsuruta, Yūko Kusunoki, Chico Lourant, Hitomi Nakahara

Action Crime

Release Date:	1962, March 28
Directors:	Kinji Fukasaku
Countries:	Japan
Production:	Toei Company, Toei Company
Cast:	Tetsuro Tamba, Koji Tsuruta, Yūko Kusunoki, Chico Lourant, Hitomi Nakahara, Sanae Mitsuoka, Isamu Yamaguchi

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.

Keywords:

insane asylum japanese noir trade newspaper revoltionary government high level skulduggery femme fatale spy

BigList Rating:	0
Critics Rating:	70

The Challenge (1962)

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