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.
Description
Type
OVASeason
Fall 1998Release Date
Status
Finished
Source
OriginalEpisodes
1
Episode Length
30 min
Information Websites
Alternative Names
Romaji
Kuzuryuugawa to Shounen
English
The Boy & A Great River
Japanese
九頭竜川と少年