Miss Hokusai

In the organizer's words:

百日紅～Miss HOKUSAI～ Sarusuberi ~ Miss HOKUSAI ~

Director: HARA Keiichi
2015, 90 Minutes, Original German, Blu-ray

The famous painter Hokusai, whose woodblock prints would later achieve world fame, lives in the big city of Edo in the early 19th century. His daughter O-Ei also created many works with great skill under his name. Loosely interwoven episodes show her as an independent woman who paints not only fearsome dragons but also beautiful women.

The anime by award-winning director Hara Keiichi is based on the manga series Sarusuberi ("Curly Myrtle") by Sugiura Hinako, which was published from 1983 to 1987 in the magazine "Manga Sunday" and later in three anthologies.

The anime celebrated its international premiere at the 39th Annecy Animation Film Festival in 2015, where it won the Jury Award. Numerous other prizes followed.

Film series
Manga on the big screen - Japanese comic adaptations

To accompany the exhibition Manga Hokusai Manga, The Sketchbooks of the Famous Master from the Perspective of Contemporary Japanese Comics, we are continuing a film series with comic adaptations, the first part of which was shown in October. It features two anime and two live-action films.

The two anime were directed by the multi-award-winning Hara Keiichi, who made a name for himself with "Summer Days with Coo"(Kappa no Kuu to natsuyasumi, 2007) and "Colorful"(Karafuru, 2010), among others. In Usui Yoshito's manga series about the rebellious boy Shin-chan, he is responsible for both the adaptation as a TV series and for several feature films.
With "Miss Hokusai"(Sarusuberi - Miss Hokusai), Hara has realized his long-cherished wish to adapt a work by manga author Sugiura Hinako. The anime is dedicated to O-Ei, a daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, who also created manga with great talent.

The two live-action films also demonstrate the immense diversity of the manga genre. An entertaining musical about an unconventional young couple is based on a web comic(Otaku ni koi wa muzukashii), and the drama by master director Koreeda Hirokazu, which is aimed at an adult audience, deals with the existential questions of life in a sensitive way(Kûki ningyô).

Price information:

Admission free