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Heroic Purgatory
Drama - 1970
Heroic Purgatory
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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.
Director:
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Yoshishige Yoshida
Cast:
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Kaneko Iwasaki
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Mariko Okada
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Naho Kimura
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Toru Takeuchi

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Runtime:
121 min
Release date:
26 Sep 1970
Country:
JP
Languages:
Japanese
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
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