Heroic Purgatory
Sep 26 1970
•2h 1m
•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.
Cast
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Mariko Okada
Nanako Shoda
Kaizo Kamoda
Rikiya Shoda
Kaneko Iwasaki
Atsuko Saegusa
Toru Takeuchi
Yasuo Kiyoshi
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