Film
Heroic Purgatory
1970Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida
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- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
About Heroic Purgatory
- Drama
Synopsis
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.
- Director
- Yoshishige Yoshida
- Writer
- Masahiro Yamada
- Original title
- 煉獄エロイカ
