Heroic Purgatory
– Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns..
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.
Release Date:
26 Sep 1970
Language:
Japanese
MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated
Director:
Yoshishige Yoshida
Writer:
Masahiro Yamada
Main Actors:
Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Naho Kimura, Yoshiaki Makita
Plot:
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
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