Miss Hokusai

October 4, 2016
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MEMBERS-ONLY SNEAK PREVIEW

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From award-winning director Keiichi Hara (Colorful) and Japanese powerhouse Production I.G (creators of Ghost in the Shell) comes a remarkable story of the daughter behind one of history’s most famous artists.

As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits, dragons and erotic sketches – sold under the name of her father – are coveted by upper-crust Lords and journeyman printmakers alike. Shy and reserved in public, in the studio O-Ei is as brash and uninhibited as her father, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush. But despite this fiercely independent spirit, O-Ei struggles under the domineering influence of her father and is ridiculed for lacking the life experience that she is attempting to portray in her art. Miss Hokusai’s bustling Edo (present day Tokyo) is filled with yokai spirits, dragons, and conniving tradesmen, while O-Ei’s relationships with her demanding father and blind younger sister provide a powerful emotional underpinning to this sumptuously animated coming-of-age tale.
 
Miss Hokusai is scheduled to open in New York on Friday, October 14 at Angelika Film Center. This sneak preview screening was organized with the cooperation of GKIDS.

2015, 90 min., in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by Keiichi Hara. This film is not yet rated.
 

  • Tuesday, October 4, 2016
  • 7:30 pm