Heroic Purgatory (1970)

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.

Cast (23)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Mariko Okada

Nanako Shoda

K

Kaizo Kamoda

Rikiya Shoda

Kaneko Iwasaki

Atsuko Saegusa

T

Toru Takeuchi

Yasuo Kiyoshi

N

Naho Kimura

Jyoko Shinjo

Y

Yoshiaki Makita

Shu Taya

K

Kazumi Tsutsui

Ayu

K

Kakuya Saeki

K

Kenichi Matsuno

Go Endou

Takeshi Ōbayashi

Tetsuo Morishita

T

Tatsuo Kobayashi

Katsuhiko Yokomitsu

H

Hajime Shouji

S

Suzuko Niwa

M

Misao Fukaya

A

Atsuko Tada

Nagatoshi Sakamoto

K

Katsunori Hatano

H

Hachiro Nagasaka

M

Masaru Naka

Bunmei Tobayama

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