Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast (1986) poster
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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. With surprising moments of caricature and slapstick, Obayashi celebrates the anarchic world of adolescence while also satirizing adult hypocrisy and conformism. (Source: Letterboxd) Edit Translation

  • English
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • עברית / עִבְרִית
  • dansk
  • Country: Japan
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Oct 4, 1986
  • Duration: 2 hr. 15 min.
  • Score: 7.3 (scored by 16 users)
  • Ranked: #56196
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 5.5

War is Absurd

It has nakid children saving freshly sold-to-the-brothel girls while singing a jaunty tune.
Seriously it is a musical about early WWII Japan before the west got involved. It is so absurd in its portrayal of the ridiculousness of the war itself shown through child's play and the seriousness of reality.

The mostly child cast carries the movie through the harshness of resource poor Japan through symbolism and play. Mock wars to mimic the actual war that is waging at the time. Its kinda deep if you know history and its effects on societies. the thing that brought the rating down for me was the unneeded use of unclothed children.

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  • Movie: Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast
  • Country: Japan
  • Release Date: Oct 4, 1986
  • Duration: 2 hr. 15 min.
  • Content Rating: Not Yet Rated

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  • Score: 7.3 (scored by 16 users)
  • Ranked: #56196
  • Popularity: #99999
  • Watchers: 35

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