煉獄エロイカ · 1970

Heroic Purgatory

Yoshishige Yoshida · 118 min · Japan

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.

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Production companies

Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha

Cast

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  Mariko Okada

  Nanako Shoda

• Kaizo Kamoda

  Rikiya Shoda

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  Kaneko Iwasaki

  Atsuko Saegusa

• Toru Takeuchi

  Yasuo Kiyoshi

• Naho Kimura

  Jyoko Shinjo

• Yoshiaki Makita

  Shu Taya

• Kazumi Tsutsui

  Ayu

• Kakuya Saeki