Heroic Purgatory (1970)

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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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Yoshishige Yoshida
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    Nanako Shoda Mariko Okada
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    Atsuko Saegusa Kaneko Iwasaki
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    Go Endou
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    Takeshi Ōbayashi
  • Profile picture of Tetsuo Morishita
    Tetsuo Morishita
  • Profile picture of Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
    Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
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    Nagatoshi Sakamoto
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    Bunmei Tobayama

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