The Challenge
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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.
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Koji Tsuruta
Kuroki
Tatsuo Umemiya
Cast member
Mayumi Ozora
Cast member
Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama
Eitarō Ozawa
Cast member
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
Cast member
Shunji Kasuga
Cast member
Takashi Kanda
Cast member
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