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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.

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Directors

> Kinji Fukasaku (Director)
> Mikio Koyama (Assistant Director)
> Ichirō Hoshijima (Director of Photography)

Writers

> Susumu Saji (Screenplay)