Taku KATO 加藤拓

Kurara: The Dazzling Life Of Hokusai's Daughter

Nippon Docs   ¾ 

O-Ei lives and works alongside her father, the famous artist Katsushika HOKUSAI. This elaborate biopic follows the free-spirited paintress through love, loss, and the search for a style of her own.

Germany 2016

73 minutes

Director
Taku KATO

Script
Mika OMORI based on a novel by Makate ASAI

Cast
Aoi MIYAZAKI, Ryuhei MATSUDA, Hideki NODA, Kyozo NAGATSUKA

About Taku KATO
加藤拓

Taku KATO, born in 1969 in Nara, has been working for the Japanese public broadcasting company NHK since 1991. His documentary KURARA: THE DAZZLING LIFE OF HOKUSAI`S DAUGHTER (2017) was shown on Nippon Connection 2018.

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