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Heroic Purgatory
Film / 1970

Heroic Purgatory

Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Drama

★ 7.0/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Mariko OkadaNanako Shoda Kaizo KamodaRikiya Shoda Kaneko IwasakiAtsuko Saegusa Toru TakeuchiYasuo Kiyoshi Naho KimuraJyoko Shinjo Yoshiaki MakitaShu Taya Kazumi TsutsuiAyu Kakuya Saeki Kenichi Matsuno Go Endou Takeshi Ōbayashi Tetsuo Morishita
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Tatsuo Kobayashi Katsuhiko Yokomitsu Hajime Shouji Suzuko Niwa Misao Fukaya Atsuko Tada Nagatoshi Sakamoto Katsunori Hatano Hachiro Nagasaka Masaru Naka Bunmei Tobayama

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