Year: 1970
Runtime: 118 mins
Language: Japanese
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
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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