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CUTIE AND THE BOXER

By Zachary HEINZERLING

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Documentary - Completed 2013

This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role of assistant to her overbearing husband, Noriko seeks an identity of her own.

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San Sebastian FF 2013
Zabaltegi - Tabakalera
Sundance Film Festival 2013
Directing Award: U.S. Documentary
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2013
Hot Docs international Documentary Festival 2013
Sydney International Film Festival 2013
Tribeca Film Festival 2013
True/False Film Fest 2013
New Horizons Film Festival 2013
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    • Year of production
    • 2013
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, JAPANESE
    • Duration
    • 82 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Zachary HEINZERLING
    • Producer(s)
    • Zachary HEINZERLING, Lydia DEAN PILCHER (Cine Mosaic), Patrik BURNS, Sierra PETTENGILL
    • Synopsis
    • A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative spirit, this candid New York story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of renowned “boxing” painter Ushio Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. As a rowdy, confrontational young artist in Tokyo, Ushio seemed destined for fame, but met with little commercial success after he moved to New York City in 1969, seeking international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved to New York to study art, she fell in love with Ushio—abandoning her education to become the wife and assistant to an unruly, alcoholic husband. Over the course of their marriage, the roles have shifted. Now 80, Ushio struggles to establish his artistic legacy, while Noriko is at last being recognized for her own art —a series of drawings entitled “Cutie,” depicting her challenging past with Ushio. Spanning four decades, the film is a moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal themes of sacrifice, disappointment and aging, against a background of lives dedicated to art.
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