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Heroic Purgatory
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Title: Heroic Purgatory

Release Date: 26 Sep 1970

Runtime: 2h 1m

Genre: Drama

Director: Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha

Production Companies: Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha

Overview: 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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Average Vote: 6.9 (34 votes)

Cast

  • Nanako Shoda: Mariko Okada
  • Rikiya Shoda: Kaizo Kamoda
  • Atsuko Saegusa: Kaneko Iwasaki
  • Yasuo Kiyoshi: Toru Takeuchi
  • Jyoko Shinjo: Naho Kimura
  • Shu Taya: Yoshiaki Makita
  • Ayu: Kazumi Tsutsui
  • : Kakuya Saeki
  • : Kenichi Matsuno
  • : Go Endou
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