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Edo, 1814. The city crawls with peasants, samurai, merchants, courtesans, and things that might not be human at all. In a cluttered studio drowning in trash, a fifty-something painter named Tetsuzo turns out masterpieces: a Bodhidharma the size of a house on a 180-square-meter sheet, sparrows small enough to sit on a grain of rice. He is famous across Japan, short-tempered, sarcastic, and completely indifferent to money. Charge him for a job he does not care about and he will name a fortune. Here is the twist. The brush behind some of those paintings is not his. His third daughter, O-Ei, twenty-three and stubborn as a mule, paints in his place and signs nothing. Her work is strong. Strong enough to cause real trouble. Two brushes, four chopsticks, one household, as she puts it. Decades later Europe will fall at the feet of a man called Hokusai. Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, Klimt, all of them. Almost no one will remember the woman who worked beside him her whole life. So who was O-Ei, and what did it cost her to stay invisible?
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Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai
Movie · 2015 · ★ 7,2
Edo, 1814. The city crawls with peasants, samurai, merchants, courtesans, and things that might not be human at all. In a cluttered studio drowning in trash, a fifty-something painter named Tetsuzo turns out masterpieces: a Bodhidharma the size of a house on a 180-square-meter sheet, sparrows small enough to sit on a grain of rice. He is famous across Japan, short-tempered, sarcastic, and completely indifferent to money. Charge him for a job he does not care about and he will name a fortune.
Here is the twist. The brush behind some of those paintings is not his. His third daughter, O-Ei, twenty-three and stubborn as a mule, paints in his place and signs nothing. Her work is strong. Strong enough to cause real trouble. Two brushes, four chopsticks, one household, as she puts it.
Decades later Europe will fall at the feet of a man called Hokusai. Renoir, Van Gogh, Monet, Klimt, all of them. Almost no one will remember the woman who worked beside him her whole life. So who was O-Ei, and what did it cost her to stay invisible?