Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

121 mins | Drama | Sept. 26, 1970

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.

Heroic Purgatory

121 mins | Drama | Sept. 26, 1970

Heroic Purgatory
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.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha
Original title 煉獄エロイカ
Directors Masahiro Moro, Sei Okamura, Hiroshi Takano, Yoshishige Yoshida
Writers Masahiro Yamada

Cast

Mariko Okada

as Nanako

Kaneko Iwasaki

as Atsuko

Toru Takeuchi

as Kiyoshi

Naho Kimura

as Jyoko