Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

( 眩 ~北斎の娘~ )

No tagline for this movie

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.

Drama
History
TV Movie

You Might Also Like

  • The Science of Sleep
  • Seven Samurai
  • Capote
  • Walk the Line
  • The Straight Story
  • The Pianist
  • Schindler's List
  • Sissi
  • Sissi: The Young Empress
  • Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
  • Erin Brockovich
  • March Comes In Like a Lion
  • The Miracle Worker
  • The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding
  • The Last Emperor
  • GoodFellas
  • Drive for the Future
  • Man on the Moon
  • Malcolm X
  • Memoirs of a Geisha