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Edo Porn is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Kaneto Shindō with Ken Ogata

Edo Porn (1981)

Hokusai manga

Edo Porn
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Length 1h59
Directed by
OriginJapon
Genres Drama,    Documentary,    Historical
Rating64% 3.229243.229243.229243.229243.22924

Hokusai Manga (Japanese: 北斎漫画), 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.

Synopsis

Tetsuzō (Ken Ogata) is an unsuccessful ukiyo-e painter who lives with his young daughter Ōei (Yūko Tanaka) in poverty over a geta shop owned by Ōyaku (Nobuko Otowa), the older wife of the aspirant writer Sashichi (Toshiyuki Nishida) who is a childhood friend of Tetsuzō.

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