“Meiji-era boy's flood tragedy sparks river embankment project uniting villages along Japan's Kuzuryuu River.”
The Boy & A Great River
九頭竜川と少年
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Meiji-era boy's flood tragedy sparks river embankment project uniting villages along Japan's Kuzuryuu River.
An educational film about the Kuzuryuu River in Japan. It starts out in the Meiji Era where the villages along it kept getting plagued by floods. The villagers prayed for it to stop but it did nothing. A young boy who lost his childhood friend to the floods grows up into a man and decides to take matters into his own hands. He starts constructing an embankment which leads to a village-wide project which spread to other villages along the river.
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Mushi Production.- Format 1 × 30′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 30m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1998 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated G All Ages
- Ref. BS-9679 catalog