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Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

7.0(35 votes)
1970
1h 58m
Drama

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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Art Theatre Guild
Gendai Eigasha

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Original:ja
Spoken:
Japanese

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