Drama

Heroic Purgatory

Name: Heroic Purgatory
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
Genre: Drama
Released: 1970-09-26
Duration: 118 min
Rating: 7.0
Cast: Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kaneko Iwasaki, Toru Takeuchi, Naho Kimura

September 26, 1970

1h 58m

TMDB7.0· 38

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.