Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
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Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.
Mariko Okada
Nanako Shoda
Kaizo Kamoda
Rikiya Shoda
Kaneko Iwasaki
Atsuko Saegusa
Toru Takeuchi
Yasuo Kiyoshi
Naho Kimura
Jyoko Shinjo
Yoshiaki Makita
Shu Taya
Tōru Takeuchi
Yasuo Kiyoshi
Kazumi Tsutsui
Ayu
Kakuya Saeki
Kenichi Matsuno
Go Endou
Takeshi Ōbayashi
Toshi Ichiyanagi
Music
Osamu Yamaguchi
Art Direction
Yoshishige Yoshida
Director / Producer
Hiroyuki Yasuoka
Editor
Masahiro Yamada
Writer
Hanae Mori
Costume Design
Motokichi Hasegawa
Director of Photography
Masahiro Moro
Assistant Director
Hiroshi Takano
Assistant Director
Sei Okamura
Assistant Director / Producer
Tetsuo Segawa
Sound
Tsutomu Kamata
Gaffer
Masaru Naka
Hachiro Nagasaka
Bunmei Tobayama
Misao Fukaya
Suzuko Niwa
Hajime Shouji
Katsunori Hatano
Nagatoshi Sakamoto
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 26, 1970
Original Name煉獄エロイカ
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 1m
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Heroic Purgatory (煉獄エロイカ, Rengoku eroica) 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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