The Challenge

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.

• Kinji FukasakuDirector
• Susumu SajiScreenplay
• Koichi KawabeOriginal Music Composer

• Koji TsurutaKuroki
• Tatsuo UmemiyaCast
• Mayumi OzoraCast
• Hitomi NakaharaHiromi
• Tetsuro TambaTakayama
• Eitarō OzawaCast
• Yūko KusunokiMarin
• Kappei MatsumotoCast
• Shunji KasugaCast
• Takashi KandaCast
• Ken SudoCast
• Isamu YamaguchiPresident