Heroic Purgatory (1970)
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.
Director: Yoshishige Yoshida
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Mariko Okada as Nanako Shoda |
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Kaizo Kamoda as Rikiya Shoda |
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Kaneko Iwasaki as Atsuko Saegusa |
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Toru Takeuchi as Yasuo Kiyoshi |
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Naho Kimura as Jyoko Shinjo |
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Yoshiaki Makita as Shu Taya |
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Kazumi Tsutsui as Ayu |
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Kakuya Saeki as |
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Kenichi Matsuno as |
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Go Endou as |
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Takeshi Ćbayashi as |
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Tetsuo Morishita as |
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Tatsuo Kobayashi as |
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Katsuhiko Yokomitsu as |
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Hajime Shouji as |
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Suzuko Niwa as |
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Misao Fukaya as |
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Atsuko Tada as |
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Nagatoshi Sakamoto as |
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Katsunori Hatano as |
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Hachiro Nagasaka as |
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Masaru Naka as |
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Bunmei Tobayama as |
| Directing | Yoshishige Yoshida | Director |
| Writing | Masahiro Yamada | Writer |
| Production | Yoshishige Yoshida | Producer |
| Editing | Hiroyuki Yasuoka | Editor |
| Art | Osamu Yamaguchi | Art Direction |
| Sound | Toshi Ichiyanagi | Music |
| Camera | Motokichi Hasegawa | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hanae Mori | Costume Design |
| Production | Sei Okamura | Producer |
| Directing | Sei Okamura | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Hiroshi Takano | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Masahiro Moro | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Tetsuo Segawa | Sound |
| Lighting | Tsutomu Kamata | Gaffer |