Heroic Purgatory(煉獄エロイカ)
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Japan · 1970
2h 1m
Director Yoshishige Yoshida
Starring Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kaneko Iwasaki, Toru Takeuchi
Genre Drama
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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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