Miss Hokusai (2016)

This movie is good for someone who is learn about Japanese culture before the world advanced. But the rock music didn't really help set the scene to be honest.Just be vairy that before you watch this film there is a lot of religious and god references to Heaven and Hell throughout the movie.Just to be clear this is not a movie for children nor it is intended to be (check out Paparika) especially because there is a few swear words used and in one scene we see two people get into bed together....not going to go into detail.However, the animation, art style and voice acting is good from the dub side of things.If you want to know how life in Japan was like especially if you were a painter I would recommend this movie.

For a movie that plays in the 18. century the chosen rock music is the worst and absolutely destroying the complete mood of the whole movie right from the start.I couldn't find any ups in the whole story, only one down after another, nothing cheerful in an harsh world that wasn't shown like one.I can't recommend to watch this one, because you will search for an happy end that never comes up.

I have to admit this is not my favorite style of anime.I am the type that grew up on Dragonball Z and Akira, but at the same time, I can appreciate things like The Wind Rises and From Up on Poppy Hill.I wish I felt the same about Miss Hokusai, but I don't. It's one of those stories that does not need animation to be told. Not much of it did anything to exploit the use of this technique. it was very standard.On top of that, I thought the story was dull. based on the credits it's a loosely true story but most likely this woman's actual story would have been more interesting.Good for a few amusing laughs but not my cup of tea

I watched this movie, because I loved the trailer and I was waiting forward for a nice biography of two great painters! And all I got was some misplaced rock songs, 3 or 4 paintings and a lot of verbosity. Thank Buddha, at least it was well drawn.The movie has a great start and a cool ending but inbetween we see almost nothing. Just vague pieces of their lives. The writing is incredibly bad and boring and the plot is nowhere to be found! Even the final plot twist is confusing.So, watch it only if you want to see a well drawn anime movie with almost nothing going on.A great disappointment.