Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

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Heroic Purgatory

1970

1h 58m

7.0(35 votes)

Drama

Overview

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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Art Theatre Guild

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2 videos

Cast & Crew

23 members

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岡田茉莉子

Nanako Shoda

岡田茉莉子

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Kaizo Kamoda

Rikiya Shoda

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岩崎加根子

Atsuko Saegusa

岩崎加根子

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Toru Takeuchi

Yasuo Kiyoshi

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Naho Kimura

Jyoko Shinjo

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Yoshiaki Makita

Shu Taya

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Kazumi Tsutsui

Ayu

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Kakuya Saeki

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Kenichi Matsuno

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Go Endou

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Go Endou

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大林丈史

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大林丈史

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森下哲夫

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森下哲夫

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Tatsuo Kobayashi

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横光克彦

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横光克彦

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Hajime Shouji

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Suzuko Niwa

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Misao Fukaya

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Atsuko Tada

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坂本長利

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坂本長利

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Katsunori Hatano

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Hachiro Nagasaka

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Masaru Naka

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外波山文明

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外波山文明

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