Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
(1986)
★ 6.9 IMDb · 7 votes
Year: 1986
Runtime: 135 мин
Country: Japan
Director: 大林宣彦
Cast: 鷲尾いさ子, 林泰文, 竹内力, 佐藤浩市, 片桐順一郎, Aiko Shouriki, 尾美としのり, Макото Сато, 小林稔侍, 大泉滉
Plot
During the fervently nationalist months leading up to World War II, a rebellious teenager is transferred to a new primary school in a small Inland Sea town. He vies with the school’s reigning bully, who takes a romantic interest in his older stepsister. When they learn she’s going to be sold to a brothel to pay off her father’s debts, they form an uneasy alliance to free her.