1000 Pine Groves (1992)
Original title: せんぼんまつばら 川と生きる少年たち
1000 Pine Groves is a 1992 Japanese-language history movie directed by Satoshi Dezaki, with a running time of 1h 30m. It stars Nozomu Sasaki, Bin Shimada and Hiroshi Masuoka.
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.