Movielogr
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
Overview
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.
Length 121 minutes
Actors
Mariko Okada | Kaizo Kamoda | Kaneko Iwasaki | Toru Takeuchi | Naho Kimura | Yoshiaki Makita | Kazumi Tsutsui | Kakuya Saeki | Kenichi Matsuno | Gô Endô | Takeshi Ôbayashi | Tetsuo Morishita | Tatsuo Kobayashi | Katsuhiko Yokomitsu | Hajime Shouji | Suzuko Niwa | Misao Fukaya | Atsuko Tada | Nagatoshi Sakamoto | Katsunori Hatano | Hachiro Nagasaka | Masaru Naka | Bunmei Tobayama