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Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
JAPAN · 1986

Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

Nobuhiko Obayashi
pre-war nationalism social class and exploitation coming of age sibling protection rival alliance
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Synopsis

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.

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