Aiko Shouriki

Based on the comic book by Jūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu.

A young woman moves in with her estranged father after her mother passes away.

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.