Takeshi: Childhood Days
A drama depicting the friendship and conflict between a boy from Tokyo evacuated to Toyama during the wartime year of 1944 and a local boy. Fujiko Fujio A adapted Kashiwabara Hyozo's novel into a manga, which director Shinoda Masahiro then brought to the screen. In October 1944, as the war situation deteriorated, Tokyo fifth-grader Kazama Shinji was evacuated to Toyama. The frail, studious Shinji is treated as an outsider at school. Takeshi, the local bully leader, approaches him. The two gradually warm up to each other, but Takeshi, who asserts his authority, treats Shinji coldly at school...
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