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Heroic Purgatory

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IMDB ID: tt0065834

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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.

Japanese

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Mariko Okada

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Kaizo Kamoda

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Kaneko Iwasaki

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Toru Takeuchi

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Naho Kimura

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Yoshiaki Makita

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Kazumi Tsutsui

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Kakuya Saeki

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Kenichi Matsuno

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Go Endou

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Yoshishige Yoshida

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Masahiro Yamada

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