Heroic Purgatory

Year: 1970

Runtime: 118 mins

Language: Japanese

Director: Yoshishige Yoshida

Drama

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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