Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi

With Isako Washio, Yasufumi Hayashi, Riki Takeuchi, Koichi Sato and Jun'ichirô Katagiri

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.