The Challenge (1962)
1h 29m
Running Time
March 28, 1962Release Date
The Challenge (1962)
1h 29m
Running Time
March 28, 1962Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Koji Tsuruta
Actor
Tetsurō Tamba
Actor
Hitomi Nakahara
Actress
Tatsuo Umemiya
Actor
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Susumu Saji
Writer
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
Ichirō Hoshijima
Cinematographer
Mayumi Ozora
Actress
Eitarō Ozawa
Actor
Cliff Harrington
Foreign doctor
Clifford Harrington
Foreign doctor
Isamu Yamaguchi
President
Sanae Mitsuoka
Robert's secretary
Chico Lourant
Sam
Koichi Kawabe
Original Music Composer
Media.
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The Proud Challenge (Japanese: 誇り高き挑戦, Hepburn: Hokori takaki chosen) is a 1962 Japanese black-and-white crime action film directed by Kinji Fukasaku.