Senbon Matsubara
Japanese title: せんぼんまつばら
Alternative titles: 1000 Pine Groves, One Thousand Pine Groves, A Lot of Pine Wood
Type: Movie
Source: Novel
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 11, 1992
Duration: 1 hr 33 min
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Studios: Magic Bus
Genres: Drama
Themes: Historical

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.

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