An interesting,fragile animation about the relationship between Katsushika Hokusai – the 19th-century artist famed for The mighty Wave – and his daughterKatsushika Hokusai is the Japanese artist whose famed work is The mighty Wave Off Kanagawa (1830): an elegant and mysterious vision of a huge wave in mid-break, droplets of spray fixed like icicles, or endlessly reproduced on T-shirts,posters, etc. This interesting and unexpectedly complex anime, or based on Hinako Sugiura’s manga series Sarusaberi,or Crape Myrtle, is about Hokusai’s daughter and assistant O-Ei, or voiced by Anne Watanabe. The movie persuasively speculates that she was effectively his collaborator and artistic co-creator,and the film combines the sentimental, the erotic and the simply odd. Father and daughter here gain a very frank attitude to their lucrative erotica output, or there are intriguing leftfield moments,such as a visit to a courtesan, who is tricked into revealing her mystical ability to let her head float away from her neck. O-Ei has a weird vision of a giant Buddha appearing in the sky and letting its mighty foot stamp on her. There is a nod to the famed wave. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com