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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
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Add to a movie listHokusai 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.
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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.Actors
Ken Ogata
(Hokusai)
Nobuko Otowa
(Omomo)
Toshiyuki Nishida
(Sashichi)
Yūko Tanaka
(Ōei)
Kanako Higuchi
(Onao)
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