The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.
Acting
Ken Ogata plays Hokusai as a hunger that never closes.
Cinematography
Shindō frames flesh like landscape—honoring and consuming simultaneously.
Direction
Shindō at 70, still refusing to look away from human ugliness.
Director
Kaneto Shindō
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