![The Challenge](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/rFAEbhuZghpXAzUisD3likvlZQH.jpg)
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.