

89 minutes
3/28/1962
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.

Koji Tsuruta
as Kuroki

Tatsuo Umemiya

Mayumi Ozora

Hitomi Nakahara
as Hiromi

Tetsuro Tamba
as Takayama

Eitarō Ozawa

Yūko Kusunoki
as Marin
Kappei Matsumoto
Shunji Kasuga

Takashi Kanda

Ken Sudo

Isamu Yamaguchi
as President

Rinichi Yamamoto

Mitsuo Andō
Tadashi Suganuma
Eiran Yoshikawa

Nobuo Yana
Sanae Mitsuoka
as Robert's secretary

Akikane Sawa

Chico Lourant
as Sam
Clifford Harrington