TMDb Rating
6.8/10
37 verified votes
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Drama
118 min
Plot Summary
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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DramaYoshishige YoshidaMariko OkadaKaizo Kamoda1970
Director
Yoshishige Yoshida
Top Cast
Mariko OkadaKaizo KamodaKaneko IwasakiToru TakeuchiNaho Kimura
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