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Heroic Purgatory

Heroic Purgatory

1970 · 121 min · JA · 7.0 (29 votes)
Dir. Yoshishige Yoshida · Starring Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kaneko Iwasaki, Toru Takeuchi, Naho Kimura, Yoshiaki Makita
Drama

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.

VIBE

A quiet, introspective drama that slowly unravels a man's past. It feels like sifting through faded photographs, where memory and present-day reality blur into a poignant, somber reflection on life choices.

melancholicintrospectivesomberconflictedslow-burnarthouse dramacharacter studyperiod piecememoryidentityfamilypolitical disillusionment
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