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Heroic Purgatory

1970
Directed byYoshishige Yoshida
1h 58m

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.

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Mariko OkadaNanako ShodaKaizo KamodaRikiya Shoda
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Kaneko Iwasaki
Atsuko Saegusa
Toru TakeuchiYasuo Kiyoshi
Naho KimuraJyoko Shinjo
Yoshiaki MakitaShu Taya
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Kenichi Matsuno
Go Endou
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
6.8

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