The Challenge (1962)

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.

Release Date : Mar 28, 1962

Runtime : 1h 29m

Genre : Crime  Action  

Companies : Toei Company

Countries : Japan

Keywords : insane asylum, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy