Heroic Purgatory
1970, Japanese. Directed by Yoshishige Yoshida.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 26 September 1970
- Original title
- 煉獄エロイカ
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Masahiro Yamada
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Heroic Purgatory runs 118 minutes (1h 58m).
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Heroic Purgatory isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 26 September 1970. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed Heroic Purgatory?
Heroic Purgatory (1970) was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida and stars Mariko Okada, Kaizo Kamoda, Kaneko Iwasaki.