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The Challenge

7.419621h 29mMovieCrimeAction

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…

DirectorKinji Fukasaku
WriterSusumu Saji

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Cast · Directed by Kinji Fukasaku

KTKoji Tsuruta
Koji Tsuruta
Kuroki
TUTatsuo Umemiya
Tatsuo Umemiya
MOMayumi Ozora
Mayumi Ozora
HNHitomi Nakahara
Hitomi Nakahara
Hiromi
TTTetsuro Tamba
Tetsuro Tamba
Takayama
EOEitarō Ozawa
Eitarō Ozawa
YKYūko Kusunoki
Yūko Kusunoki
Marin
KM
Kappei Matsumoto
SK
Shunji Kasuga
TKTakashi Kanda
Takashi Kanda
KSKen Sudo
Ken Sudo
IYIsamu Yamaguchi
Isamu Yamaguchi
President

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