Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
Release Date: 1986-10-04
Runtime: 2Hours 15Minutes
Language: Japanese.
Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi.
Production Companies: Nippon Television Network Corporation , VAP .
Overview: 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.