A Japanese anime from GKids, “Miss Hokusai” is in fact a mature, warts-and-all portrait of the early 19th century Edo period artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai (Richard Epcar), best known ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. Potential moviegoers for whom the word “anime” conjures up images of adolescent power fantasies or bizarre erotica involving ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The annals of Western art are woefully sparse when it comes to female painters, which is just one of perhaps a dozen reasons that ...

The coming-of-age tale opens in select theaters on October 14. There’s this nutty old man who painted a huge Dharma on a huge sheet of paper and draws sparrows on tiny rice grains. Some may know him ...

Hinako Sugiura’s historical manga series titled Sarusuberi, based off true events, is getting adapted into a full-length animated film titled Miss Hokusai. The first trailer has been posted by Japan’s ...

Director Keiichi Hara discusses his subject, real-life painter O-Ei, who worked in the shadow of her famous father, in the Gkids Oscar contender set in 19th century Japan. Based on the Japanese ...

Blu-ray, DVD and Digital copy, 2015, PG-13 for mature thematic material including sexual situations and images; streaming via Amazon Video, iTunes, Google Play, Vudu and YouTube O-EI WAS the daughter ...

One of the biggest reasons why 2D animation is still alive and well in other parts of the world is that some countries never got the memo that all animated films needed to be about talking animals or ...

The year is 1814 and a demure, kimono-clad young woman walks across a crowded bridge in Japan’s capital city of Edo. Have we heard, she asks us, about “a nutty old man” who creates enormous paper ...

Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is a Japanese ukiyo-e art legend, most famous as the creator of the woodblock print series “Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji” and the single print “The Great Wave off ...

This live-action-worthy look at a creative father-daughter duo serves as a stellar example of the oft-cited principle that animation is an art form, not a genre. Photo courtesy of Production I.G The ...