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Heroic Purgatory is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Yoshishige Yoshida with Mariko Okada
Heroic Purgatory (1970)
Rengoku eroica
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Add to a movie listHeroic Purgatory (煉獄エロイカ, Rengoku eroica) is a Japanese black-and-white arthouse film released in 1970. It was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida and written by Masahiro Yamada. It's the second movie in Yoshida's trilogy of Japanese radicalism, preceded by Eros + Massacre (1969) and followed by Coup d'Etat (1973).
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Rikiya Shoda est un ingénieur de l’Agence de l’énergie atomique japonaise. Un jour, sa femme Nanako rentre à la maison avec Ayu, une adolescente qu’elle a trouvée en ville. Un homme prétendant être son père vient pour la reprendre. Ayu lui répète que Rikiya and Nanako sont ses parents. A travers ce désaccord, Rikiya se rappelle sa jeunesse révolutionnaire.Actors
Mariko Okada
(Nanako)
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