Drama
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.
Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
70
User score
39 votes
Status
Released
Released
September 26, 1970
Runtime
1h 58m
Language
Japanese
Top cast
Mariko Okada
Nanako Shoda
Kaizo Kamoda
Rikiya Shoda
Kaneko Iwasaki
Atsuko Saegusa
Toru Takeuchi
Yasuo Kiyoshi
Naho Kimura
Jyoko Shinjo
Yoshiaki Makita
Shu Taya
Kazumi Tsutsui
Ayu
Kakuya Saeki
Kenichi Matsuno
Go Endou
Takeshi Ōbayashi
Tetsuo Morishita
Tatsuo Kobayashi
Katsuhiko Yokomitsu
Hajime Shouji
Suzuko Niwa
Misao Fukaya
Atsuko Tada
Nagatoshi Sakamoto
Katsunori Hatano
