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 : March 28, 1962
Runtime : 89m
Companies : Toei Company
Countries : Japan
Keywords : insane asylum, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy