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The Challenge

Where:

 Tokyo Prefecture

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.

Released in 1962 — 89 minutes

Genres:

 Crime Action

Language:

 Japanese