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Heroic Purgatory

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Original title

Rengoku eroica (Heroic Purgatory)

Year

1970

Running time

118 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Yoshishige Yoshida

Screenwriter

Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast

Producer

Art Theatre Guild, Gendai Eigasha

Genre

Drama. Fantasy. Mystery. Thriller | Psychological Drama. Psychological Thriller. Ensemble Film. Crime. Politics. Terrorism. Surrealism. 1950s

Synopsis

Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan after spending a few years studying at the MIT. He's working on a new project involving the creation of laser beams. One day, his wife Nanako, comes back home with a lost teenager called Ayu. A man, who pretends to be Ayu's father, come to get her back but Ayu keeps telling him that Rikiya and Nanako are her parents. With this girl entering their peaceful life, Rikiya suddenly begins to remember his youth, when he was a revolutionary. This is a gnomic, mysterious film by Japanese director Yoshishige Yoshida. Told through flashbacks, flashforwards and fantasy sequences, the film examines the life, fantasies and sexual hang-ups of a leftist professor who may or may not be a communist.

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Heroic Purgatory

1970

Yoshishige Yoshida

6.9

(110)