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Heroic Purgatory (1970) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1970 · 118 mins · Japanese
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- Directed by
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Starring
- Mariko Okada, Nagatoshi Sakamoto, Bunmei Tobayama, Takeshi Ōbayashi, Katsuhiko Yokomitsu, Kaneko Iwasaki
Engineer Rikiya Shoda works for Japan's Atomic Agency. One day his wife Nanako brings home a lost teenager named Ayu. When a man claiming to be Ayu's father arrives to retrieve her, Ayu insists that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. This unsettling situation triggers Rikiya's sudden recollection of his younger days as a revolutionary.
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