

Heroic Purgatory
September 26, 1970•1h 58m•★ 7.0
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.
Director
Yoshishige YoshidaWriters
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
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Tatsuo Kobayashi

Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
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Hajime Shouji
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Suzuko Niwa
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Misao Fukaya
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Atsuko Tada

Nagatoshi Sakamoto
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Katsunori Hatano