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Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

1970•1h 58m•6.8/10
Drama

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6.8/10(37)

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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Production

Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha

Language

JA

Status

Released

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Cast

Mariko Okada

Mariko Okada

Nanako Shoda

Kaizo Kamoda

Rikiya Shoda

Kaneko Iwasaki

Kaneko Iwasaki

Atsuko Saegusa

Toru Takeuchi

Yasuo Kiyoshi

Naho Kimura

Jyoko Shinjo

Yoshiaki Makita

Shu Taya

Kazumi Tsutsui

Ayu

Kakuya Saeki

Kenichi Matsuno

Go Endou

Go Endou

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Tetsuo Morishita

Tetsuo Morishita

Tatsuo Kobayashi

Katsuhiko Yokomitsu

Katsuhiko Yokomitsu

Hajime Shouji

Suzuko Niwa

Misao Fukaya

Atsuko Tada

Nagatoshi Sakamoto

Nagatoshi Sakamoto

Katsunori Hatano

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