1000 Pine Groves

Movie · 1h 30m

Starring Nozomu Sasaki, Bin Shimada, Hiroshi Masuoka, Mizuka Arima

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.