Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory — Plot

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, pretending to be the father, comes to get her back; Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. Through this disruption, Rikiya suddenly starts remembering his youth as a revolutionary.

• Release date
• September 26, 1970
• Runtime
• 118 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Yoshishige Yoshida

Heroic Purgatory — Cast

Mariko Okada Nanako Shoda

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Kaizo Kamoda Rikiya Shoda Kaneko Iwasaki Atsuko Saegusa

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Toru Takeuchi Yasuo Kiyoshi

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Naho Kimura Jyoko Shinjo

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Yoshiaki Makita Shu Taya

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Kazumi Tsutsui Ayu

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Kakuya Saeki