The Challenge (1962)

The Challenge (1962) - Crime Movies 89 minutes. Die Herausforderung, Défi d'amour propre - Fierté agressive, Hokori takaki chosen, The Proud Challenge, The Challenge, Hokori takaki chōsen. 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. insane asylum, trade newspaper, revoltionary government, high level skulduggery, femme fatale spy