Miss Hokusai

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10-22-2016

Miss Hokusai

Japanese feature length cartoon about the painter Hokusai and his family.

Nutty Old Man; check.

Pre-modern Tokugawa-era soft porn; check.

Blind little girl in snowball fight: check.

Hookers (sometimes referred to as 'foxy ladies'); check.

Dragons; check.

Astral projection; check.

The movie is much too modest to mention it, but apparently Hokusai may have founded the Slacker Movement.

Warning: Japanese films about historical people can be presented as a series of vignettes, without a traditional story arch. In other words, without a beginning, a middle, and an end. If you sat through all three films of the Samurai Trilogy, you know what I mean.

There're flicks that I like and everyone else hates. I liked this one, and you'll hate it. Go see it anyway. Relax and enjoy it. It is really very pretty, so you can just ignore the subtitles if the story annoys you.

Check it out.



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