The Challenge

The story

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 & crew

Koji TsurutaKuroki

Tatsuo UmemiyaCast

Mayumi OzoraCast

Hitomi NakaharaHiromi

Tetsuro TambaTakayama

Eitarō OzawaCast

Yūko KusunokiMarin

Kappei Matsumoto

Kappei MatsumotoCast

Shunji Kasuga

Shunji KasugaCast

Takashi KandaCast

Ken SudoCast

Isamu YamaguchiPresident