Japanese film: Miss Hokusai

After Miss Hokusai…

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Laurent: I know some artists and they are…

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Ursula: Different?

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Laurent: Hmm, they often don’t say much, liking to appear mist-wreathed. Talk too much, the aura fades.

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Ursula: I know, the lustre rusts.

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Laurent: They can be enigmatic and speak in epithets. If they gesture, it’s quick and dismissive.

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Ursula: Artists simplify, and ukiyoe was an ultimate simplicity.

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O-Ei itinerant

Laurent: So it was with O-Ei apparently, as Hara had it her appear that is.

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Ursula: Then after her father died, it’s said she became itinerant. Seeking a simple life. “With two brushes and our chopsticks, we can live anywhere.”

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Laurent: The father dies, and the child grows stronger? But in this case, it seems she rather vanished.

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Voice-over

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Sometimes not being there precipitates something serendipitous. Keiichi Hara himself vanished for some months in production, worried about doing justice to Sugiura's Sarusuberi, and causing some creative dilemmas, ultimately well-solved by disciples.

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