Heroic Purgatory with Arabic, Czech, English, Portuguese and Russian subtitles
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 film in Yoshida’s trilogy of Japanese radicalism, preceded by Eros + Massacre (1969) and followed by Coup d’Etat (1973).
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.
