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Heroic Purgatory

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Heroic Purgatory

6.8

1h 58m

1970

Synopsis

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 Yoshida

Trailer

Drama

Cast & Crew

Mariko Okada

Mariko Okada

as Nanako Shoda

Kaizo Kamoda

as Rikiya Shoda

Kaneko Iwasaki

Kaneko Iwasaki

as Atsuko Saegusa

Toru Takeuchi

as Yasuo Kiyoshi

Naho Kimura

as Jyoko Shinjo

Yoshiaki Makita

as Shu Taya

Kazumi Tsutsui

as Ayu

Kakuya Saeki

Kenichi Matsuno

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