Heroic Purgatory
煉獄エロイカ
1970 · 1h 58m · Drama · 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.
Directed by
Yoshishige YoshidaWritten by
Masahiro Yamada6.3Smart score
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