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Annecy Jury Award and APSA Best Animated Feature winner.", "snippet": "Miss Hokusai (百日紅, Sarusuberi) is a 2015 Production I.G anime film directed by Keiichi Hara, adapted from Hinako Sugiura's manga, about Hokusai's daughter and fellow ukiyo-e artist O-Ei in 1814 Edo; Annecy Jury Award and APSA Best Animated Feature winner.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.genre-form.animated-shorts.anime-features.yr-2014-2026", "markdown": "# Miss Hokusai (百日紅)\n\n**Miss Hokusai** (百日紅 〜Miss HOKUSAI〜, *Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai*) is a 2015 Japanese animated drama film directed by Keiichi Hara and produced by [Production I.G](https://www.edgepedia.org/production-i-g), adapted from Hinako Sugiura's manga *Sarusuberi*. Set in Edo (present-day Tokyo) in 1814, it follows O-Ei, the 23-year-old daughter and assistant of the ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock-print art tradition Hokusai mastered) master Katsushika Hokusai, who paints in her father's shadow while her own work goes out under his name.[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [2](https://www.netflixmovies.com/miss-hokusai-2015)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original title | 百日紅 〜Miss HOKUSAI〜 (*Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai*); *sarusuberi* means crape myrtle[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [3](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave) |\n| Release | May 9, 2015 (Japan, Tokyo Theatres); October 14, 2016, limited (United States, GKIDS)[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai) |\n| Running time | 90 minutes per the Japanese database JFDB and Production I.G; 93 minutes in US listings[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai) |\n| Key staff | Director Keiichi Hara; screenplay Miho Maruo; music Harumi Fuuki and Yo Tsuji; theme song by Sheena Ringo[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) |\n| Voice cast | Anne as O-Ei, Yutaka Matsushige as Katsushika Hokusai, Gaku Hamada as Ikeda Zenjiro, Shion Shimizu as O-Nao[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [5](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/miss-hokusai-2016) |\n| Major awards | Annecy 2015 Jury Award; Fantasia 2015 Satoshi Kon Award, Gold Audience Award, and Prix Séquences; Sitges 2015 Best Animated Feature; 2015 Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) |\n| US reception | 93% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer (59 reviews); Metascore 74; US gross $176.0K[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai) • [6](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miss-hokusai/critic-reviews/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Story and subject\n\nThe film is set in the year 1814 in Edo, one of the world's most densely populated cities. O-Ei, a female ukiyo-e artist of 23, spends her days creating artworks with her father, the painter known to posterity as Hokusai, in their garbage-loaded house-atelier. She shares his talent and passion, often helps finish his works, and lives largely in his shadow; the film posits that she was effectively his collaborator and artistic co-creator.[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [3](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave) • [7](https://www.nichi-eidomain.com/miss-hokusai-2015-by-keiichi-hara/)\n\nHokusai in the film is divorced, absorbed in his art, and inattentive to his young daughter O-Nao, who is blind. O-Ei's closest relationship is with O-Nao, and the episode built around this sisterly bond supplies the film's emotional spine.[2](https://www.netflixmovies.com/miss-hokusai-2015) • [8](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/miss-hokusai/) The narrative moves through the changing seasons of Edo, taking in the city's professions crossing its great bridge, the [Yoshiwara](https://www.edgepedia.org/yoshiwara) pleasure quarters, Kabuki theater, fires, and supernatural episodes, alongside scenes of the artists at work, including a nod to *The Great Wave off Kanagawa*.[7](https://www.nichi-eidomain.com/miss-hokusai-2015-by-keiichi-hara/) • [3](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave)\n\n## Source and adaptation\n\nThe film adapts *Sarusuberi*, a manga serialized in the 1980s by Hinako Sugiura, a manga artist and researcher of Edo-period customs who died in 2005. Sugiura's comic is a collection of self-contained short stories without continuous plot, and Hara described the challenge of choosing which episodes to use and how to end the film. He decided from the start to place the *Nowaki* (Autumn Gale) episode, centered on O-Nao, at the climax, and used \"family\" as the cohesive element; the bridge sequence, the snow sequence, and the ending are original to the film.[9](https://media.fetch.fm/media/uploads/production-notes/2016/01/08/10/31/Production_Notes_-_Miss_Hokusai_-_Final.pdf) • [10](https://topics.cinematopics.com/archives/16747)\n\nThe film's final moments replace the Edo of 1814 with the Tokyo of the 21st century, a deliberate bridge between the period and the present.[3](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave)\n\n## Production\n\nProduction I.G animated the film, with Yoshimi Itazu as character designer and chief animation supervisor, Hiroshi Ono as art director, and photography by Koji Tanaka. Hara had long wanted to adapt Sugiura's work; after his film *[Colorful](https://www.edgepedia.org/colorful)*, he brought one of her manga to Production I.G president Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, learned that an earlier *Sarusuberi* project at the studio had been shelved, and accepted the offer to direct.[1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [11](https://gigazine.net/news/20150509-sarusuberi-keiichi-hara-interview/)\n\nTwo scenes use rock music with electric guitars, deliberately anachronistic for the [Edo period](https://www.edgepedia.org/edo-period), to present O-Ei's personality; Hara took the idea from Sugiura herself, who liked to draw while listening to rock.[2](https://www.netflixmovies.com/miss-hokusai-2015) The sound design was built to evoke wooden floors, wooden shoes, and the rustling of kimonos.[2](https://www.netflixmovies.com/miss-hokusai-2015)\n\n## Historical basis\n\nO-Ei, known to art history as Katsushika Oi, was a real painter, one of very few female artists of the Edo period, and remains little documented. Only about ten works are attributed to her with near certainty, and her birth year is debated: researcher Kazuyoshi Hayashi suggested 1791, Gozo Yasuda theorized 1798, and most scholars today consider 1800 or 1801 most likely. Sugiura's manga embraces the 1791 theory, which is why O-Ei is 23 in 1814.[12](https://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s08_/001279.html) Hokusai (1760–1849) is best known for *The Great Wave off Kanagawa* (1830).[3](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave) • [13](https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/miss-hokusai-imagines-the-life-of-an-artists-daughter/2016/10/27/26940478-97c1-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html)\n\n## Reception and awards\n\nThe film won the Jury Award in the feature competition at the 39th Annecy International Animation Film Festival in 2015, with the jury citing it unanimously as \"a wonderful work depicting a woman with a strong will, and the power of art and creation.\" At the 19th Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it was the opening film and marked its North American premiere, it took the Satoshi Kon Award for best animated feature, the Gold Audience Award, and the Prix Séquences for best Asian feature. It also won Best Animated Feature at the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia and, in November 2015, the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Animated Feature Film in Brisbane.[14](https://www.production-ig.co.jp/hotnews/2015/062201.html) • [15](https://production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s09_/001281.html) • [1](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659) • [16](https://production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s09_/001298.html) It was later nominated for Best Animated Feature (Independent) at the 2017 [Annie Awards](https://www.edgepedia.org/annie-awards) and received an Excellence Prize at the 39th Japan Academy Prizes.[17](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3689910/awards/) • [16](https://production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s09_/001298.html)\n\nCritics in English-language release were broadly positive. The film holds 93% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 59 reviews and a Metascore of 74, with 14 of 16 counted reviews positive and none negative.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai) • [6](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miss-hokusai/critic-reviews/) Reviewers praised the animation's attention to light sources and period detail and its blend of the everyday, the erotic, and the supernatural; recurring criticisms concerned its episodic structure and pacing, with some critics finding the vignette format better suited to short stories than to a feature.[6](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miss-hokusai/critic-reviews/) • [5](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/miss-hokusai-2016) In the United States, GKIDS released it in limited theaters on October 14, 2016, and it grossed $176.0K.[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Sarusuberi: Miss Hokusai, Japanese Film Database (JFDB)](https://jfdb.jp/en/title/5659)\n2. [Miss Hokusai (2015), NetflixMovies.com facts and trivia](https://www.netflixmovies.com/miss-hokusai-2015)\n3. [Miss Hokusai review, The Guardian (Peter Bradshaw, 2016)](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/feb/04/miss-hokusai-review-anime-katsushika-great-wave)\n4. [Miss Hokusai, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/miss_hokusai)\n5. [Miss Hokusai movie review, RogerEbert.com (Brian Tallerico, 2016)](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/miss-hokusai-2016)\n6. [Miss Hokusai critic reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/miss-hokusai/critic-reviews/)\n7. [Miss Hokusai (2015) by Keiichi Hara, Japanese Film Reviews](https://www.nichi-eidomain.com/miss-hokusai-2015-by-keiichi-hara/)\n8. [Review: Miss Hokusai, Slant Magazine (Elise Nakhnikian, 2016)](https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/miss-hokusai/)\n9. [Production Notes, Miss Hokusai (interview with Keiichi Hara)](https://media.fetch.fm/media/uploads/production-notes/2016/01/08/10/31/Production_Notes_-_Miss_Hokusai_-_Final.pdf)\n10. [『百日紅 〜Miss HOKUSAI〜』原恵一監督インタビュー, CINEMATOPICS](https://topics.cinematopics.com/archives/16747)\n11. [原恵一監督インタビュー「百日紅〜Miss HOKUSAI〜」, GIGAZINE (2015)](https://gigazine.net/news/20150509-sarusuberi-keiichi-hara-interview/)\n12. [History Special 3: About O-Ei aka Katsushika Oi, Production I.G](https://www.productionig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s08_/001279.html)\n13. [\"Miss Hokusai\" imagines the life of an artist's daughter, The Washington Post (2016)](https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/miss-hokusai-imagines-the-life-of-an-artists-daughter/2016/10/27/26940478-97c1-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html)\n14. [『百日紅 ~Miss HOKUSAI~』アヌシー審査員賞受賞, Production I.G (2015)](https://www.production-ig.co.jp/hotnews/2015/062201.html)\n15. [Miss Hokusai wins three awards at Fantasia 2015, Production I.G](https://production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s09_/001281.html)\n16. [Miss Hokusai is Best Animated Film Award winner at APSAs 2015, Production I.G](https://production-ig.com/contents/works_sp/95_/s09_/001298.html)\n17. 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