Movie, 1992

1000 Pine Groves

Name: 1000 Pine Groves
Genre: History, Animation
Released: 1992-07-11
Duration: 90 min
Cast: Nozomu Sasaki, Bin Shimada, Hiroshi Masuoka, Mizuka Arima, Akiko Yajima

8.0, 90 min, History, Animation, Japan

After suffering severe floods in 1753, the people of Senbon Matsubara in Shizuoka cooperate on flood prevention around the Kiso, Nagara, and Yuhi rivers. The people of Satsuma (Kumamoto Prefecture) endure great hardships after being forced to undertake the work by the central government, a subtle indication of the bad feeling that would foment into open rebellion the following century.