Edo Porn
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| Directed by | Kaneto Shindo |
| Written by | Kaneto Shindo |
| Starring |
Ken Ogata Toshiyuki Nishida |
| Music by | Hikaru Hayashi |
Production company | |
Release dates |
(Japan) |
Running time | 119 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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.
Plot
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.
Tetsuzō lives by borrowing money from his adoptive father, the Shogunate mirror-maker Nakajima Ise (Frankie Sakai) and, one day, he meets a young and beautiful prostitute named Ōnao (Kanako Higuchi) and leaves her to Nakajima as a concubine. Meanwhile, Tetsuzō has grown a destructive obsession for Ōnao. Ōnao is a sadist with a traumatic past. She psychologically torments Nakajima until he hangs himself and leaves.
After Ōyaku dies, Sashichi, adopting the pen name Bakin, devotes his life to writing and ignores Ōei's advances who has intimate feelings for him. Nevertheless, Ōei continues to love him, which results in her celibacy.
Years later and after hard-earned fame, Tetsuzō, now Hokusai is 89. He lives by painting Ichimatsu dolls with Ōei. One day, Ōei finds a peasant girl who looks like Ōnao (played by the same actress). After he sees young ama playing with a dead octopus, Hokusai persuades the girl to pose for the shunga of an ama engaged in a threesome with two octopuses.
Cast
- Ken Ogata as Tetsuzō
- Toshiyuki Nishida as Sashichi
- Yūko Tanaka as Ōei
- Kanako Higuchi as Ōnao
- Frankie Sakai as Nakajima Ise
- Nobuko Otowa as Ōyaku
- Yoichi Sase as Gosuke
- Taiji Tonoyama as the woodcarver
- Joe Shishido as Jippensha Ikku
- Kon Omura as Shikitei Sanba
- Kinya Aikawa as Utamaro
- Hideo Kanze as Kanō Torukawa
- Kunio Otsuka as Tsutaya Jūzaburō
External links
- Edo Porn at the Internet Movie Database
- Edo Porn at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)