Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

2017 ja 73 minutes

Rating: 8

Plot

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

Trailer

Cast

Aoi Miyazaki

Aoi Miyazaki

Oei Katsushika

Ryuhei Matsuda

Ryuhei Matsuda

Zenjiro Ikeda

Hiroki Miyake

Hiroki Miyake

Yasuke

Hideki Noda

Hideki Noda

Bakin Takizawa

Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo

Koto

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Kyōzō Nagatsuka

Hokusai Katsushika

Tomokazu Koshimura

Tomokazu Koshimura

Kawahara Keiga

Ayaka Nakata

Ayaka Nakata

Oiran (courtesan)

Similar Movies

Song of Raiyantsuuri

Song of Raiyantsuuri

ja

July 21, 1994

Sandakan No. 8

Sandakan No. 8

ja

November 2, 1974

The Twilight Samurai

The Twilight Samurai

ja

November 2, 2002

Cry Freedom

Cry Freedom

en

November 6, 1987

Pollock

Pollock

en

September 6, 2000

Cashback

Cashback

en

January 17, 2007

Factory Girl

Factory Girl

en

December 29, 2006

The Great Debaters

The Great Debaters

en

December 25, 2007

The Edge of Love

The Edge of Love

en

June 20, 2008

Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar

hi

February 13, 2008

Auto Focus

Auto Focus

en

October 18, 2002

Gung Ho

Gung Ho

en

March 14, 1986

Immortal Beloved

Immortal Beloved

en

December 16, 1994

On-Gaku: Our Sound

On-Gaku: Our Sound

ja

January 11, 2020

A Prayer Before Dawn

A Prayer Before Dawn

en

May 24, 2018

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

Dead or Alive 2: Birds

ja

December 2, 2000

The King

The King

en

May 20, 2007

Radio

Radio

en

October 24, 2003

Miss Potter

Miss Potter

en

December 3, 2006