Heroic Purgatory (movie)
煉獄エロイカ- User score: 6.9
- Production country: Japan
- Producer: Yoshishige Yoshida
- Production companies: Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 9/26/1970
- Run time: 121 min.
Movie description
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.