Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast

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.

Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi

Cast: Isako Washio, Yasufumi Hayashi, Riki Takeuchi, Koichi Sato, Jun'ichirô Katagiri, Aiko Shouriki, Toshinori Omi, Makoto Satō

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.