Film
Heroic Purgatory
1970· 1h 58m· Drama
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.
1970-09-26
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Key Crew
DirectorYoshishige Yoshida
WriterMasahiro Yamada
ProducerSei Okamura
Director of PhotographyMotokichi Hasegawa
EditorHiroyuki Yasuoka
Full cast & crew (23 cast · 13 crew)
Details
Released1970-09-26
Runtime1h 58m
StatusReleased
StudiosArt Theatre Guild · Gendai Eigasha
LanguagesJapanese
CountriesJapan
Rating7.0/10 · 38 votes
Original languageja
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