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It’s the first half of the nineteenth century, and Katsushika Hokusai is one of the most revered painters in Japan. A man of few social graces, Hokusai spends all of his time painting, carousing with his loser-pals, and giving his longsuffering daughter/roommate grief. For her part, O-Ei cleans up her father’s messes—including creating art in his place—while also working to lift the spirits of her blind younger sister, whom their father avoids. Miss Hokusai is the feminist coming-of-age portrait of the great artist’s even more personally remarkable daughter, set within the sordid, spirit-filled world of 1800s Edo (present-day Tokyo). Award-winning filmmaker Keiichi Hara (Colorful) directs this thematically complex, “small poetic wonder,” in the words of The Hollywood Report, for anime powerhouse Production I.G (the creators of Ghost in the Shell).
Director Keiichi Hara 2015 Japan 90 minutes NR (some mature content) DCP
