Heroic Purgatory

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Heroic Purgatory (1970)

Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida

Drama · 1h 58m

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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Cast

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

Crew

Director
Yoshishige Yoshida
Writer
Masahiro Yamada
Director of Photography
Motokichi Hasegawa
Editor
Hiroyuki Yasuoka
Producer
Yoshishige Yoshida, Sei Okamura

Details

Original title
煉獄エロイカ
Release date
1970-09-26
Runtime
1h 58m
Genres
Drama
Original language
JA
Spoken languages
Japanese
Countries
Japan
Production
Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha