Year: 1981
Duration: 02:03:22
Directed by: Kaneto Shindo
Actors: Ken Ogata, Toshiyuki Nishida, Yuko Tanaka
Language: Japanese (English Subtitles)
Country: Japan
Also known as: Hokusai manga; Erotikus képregény
Description: Edo Porn begins very well indeed with interesting characters and circumstances and I also wasn’t at very first aware that this was a bio pic on the life and work of Hokusai, he of the amorous octopus woodcut. Certainly the very first half is truly interesting and gorgeous with it’s additionally to be stated a lot of nudity once the musician sketches out his erotic photos. The final half, regrettably, at least to western eyes seems excessively attracted out because of the figures now made to appear old in rather terrible effects make-up. Information technology could be that people have actually different ideas about which functions to accentuate to get an aged look but in any occasion info technology does maybe not appear really realistic. When again it’s possibly an eastern preoccupation that therefore much time should today be devoted to regretting exactly what is maybe not, searching forward to demise etc. Precisely what I’ve maybe not however pointed out needless to say is the central world in which in fact and fantasy we start to see the gorgeous nude and the octopus. Once again, for me, not the greatest special effects nevertheless the world certainly holds energy with Hokusai’s claim that he is painting not a woman becoming ravished nevertheless the concealed desires of women and it’s also undeniably erotic. Really well worth a watch and some gorgeous views of Mt Fuji to accompany the sequence working with his numerous interpretations of this stylish mountain.
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Hokusai is not only the most famous classic painter, his bio is also good stuff for a movie.
Nevertheless Japanese films are a bit less easy to watch than Hongkong flicks of that time (the 80’s!).
And I prefer the work and character of Hiroshige anyway. 😉