Heroic Purgatory (1970)
煉獄エロイカ
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.
- Date of release
- 1970-09-26
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (39)
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yoshishige Yoshida
Casting
- Mariko Okada — Nanako Shoda
- Kaizo Kamoda — Rikiya Shoda
- Kaneko Iwasaki — Atsuko Saegusa
- Toru Takeuchi — Yasuo Kiyoshi
- Naho Kimura — Jyoko Shinjo
- Yoshiaki Makita — Shu Taya
- Kazumi Tsutsui — Ayu
- Kakuya Saeki
- Kenichi Matsuno
- Go Endou
- Takeshi Ōbayashi
- Tetsuo Morishita
Interesting facts
Heroic Purgatory is a 1970 Japanese drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida. It is the second film in a loose trilogy, preceded by Eros + Massacre (1969) and followed by Coup d'Etat (1973).
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