Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

2017
1h 13m
8.1

8.1/10

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Overview

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.

Status: Released

Language: JA

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Production Information

Production Companies
NHK
Production Countries
Japan
Spoken Languages
Japanese

Quick Facts

Original Title 眩 ~北斎の娘~
Release Date April 18, 2017
Status Released
Language JA
IMDb ID tt7168760
Website Visit Site

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)

Key Crew

Taku Katô
Director
Mika Ohmori
Writer