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Wikipedia article
'Hokusai Manga' , better known internationally with its exploitative title 'Edo Porn', is a 1981 biographical drama based on the life of Japanese artist Hokusai directed by Kaneto Shindo. It draws visual and narrative inspiration from the artist's eponymous collection of sketches and focuses on an anachronistic story related to creation of 'The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife'.
Plot
Tetsuz (Ken Ogata) is an unsuccessful ukiyo-e painter who lives with his daughter ei (Yko Tanaka) in poverty over a geta shop owned by yaku (Nobuko Otowa), the older wife of the aspirant writer Sashichi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who is a childhood friend of Tetsuz.
Tetsuz lives by borrowing money from his adoptive father, the Shogunate mirror-maker Nakajima Ise (Frankie Sakai). One day, he meets a young, beautiful prostitute named nao (Kanako Higuchi) and leaves her to Nakajima as a concubine. Meanwhile, Tetsuz has grown a destructive obsession for nao. nao is a sadist with a traumatic past. She psychologically torments Nakajima until he hangs himself and leaves.
After yaku dies, Sashichi, adopting the pen name Bakin, devotes his life to writing and ignores ei's advances who has intimate feelings for him. Nevertheless, ei continues to love him, which results in her celibacy.
Years later and after hard-earned fame, Tetsuz (now Hokusai) is 89. He lives by painting Ichimatsu dolls with ei. One day, ei finds a peasant girl who looks like nao (played by the same actress). After he sees a young ama playing with a dead octopus, Hokusai persuades the girl to pose for the shunga of an ama engaged in a threesome with two octopuses.
Cast
* Ken Ogata as Tetsuz
* Toshiyuki Nishida as Sashichi
* Yko Tanaka as ei
* Kanako Higuchi as nao
* Frankie Sakai as Nakajima Ise
* Nobuko Otowa as yaku
* Yoichi Sase as Gosuke
* Taiji Tonoyama as the woodcarver
* Joe Shishido as Jippensha Ikku
* Kon Omura as Shikitei Sanba
* Kinya Aikawa as Utamaro
* Rokko Toura
* Hideo Kanze as Kan Torukawa
* Kunio Otsuka as Tsutaya Jzabur
References
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