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HOKUSAI

By Hajime HASHIMOTO

GETA FILMS / GREEN LIGHT LLC - as SALES All rights, World

Biography - Completed 2020

-Hokusai was not born talented but through many fruitful relationships, he learned the essentials of creation, originality, passion and inner urge. Eventually, He got recognized as a true painter at age 70 and kept drawing until his death at the age of 90. Nowadays, we live a longer life. This film

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Biography, Historical, Art - Culture
- Countries
- JAPAN
- Languages
- JAPANESE
- Budget
- 5 - 10 M$
- Duration
- 129 mn
- Director(s)
- Hajime HASHIMOTO
- Cast
- Yuya YAGIRA, Min TANAKA, Hiroshi ABE, Hiroshi TAMAKI, Eita NAGAYAMA, Miori TAKEMOTO, Kanji TSUDA, Munetaka AOKI
- Synopsis
- In the Edo-era, young impecunious artist Katsushika Hokusai lived in downtown Edo. He was shabby and lived from hand to mouth with little money he earned by selling his painting on the streets. But Tsutaya Juzaburo, the one of a kind publisher, discovered Hokusai’s hidden talent and led him to unleash his potentials. With Juzaburo’s help, Hokusai found the essence of drawing and his talent bloomed.
  
  Meanwhile, the entertainment ban came in effect by the Edo shogunate. While Hokusai became older, he built a strong relationship with Ryutei Tanehiko, the popular playwright, who was born as a samurai and was distressed in creating new plays because of the prohibition. Eventually Tanehiko got executed by the shogunate. Hokusai came out with all his repulsion against the Edo shogunate on his vivid drawings.