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Heroic Purgatory

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.

1h 58m1970TMDb 7.0

Japanese

Crew and Cast

Storyline

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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Info

Original title
煉獄エロイカ
Status
Released
Released
26 September 1970
Runtime
1h 58m
TMDB score
7.0 / 10 (39 votes)

Production

Studios
Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha
Countries
Japan

Languages

Original
Japanese
Spoken
Japanese