Hokusai: An Animated Sketchbook

Overview:

A BAFTA award winning short tribute to the artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), which explores a small number of the thousands of drawings he is reputed to have produced during his lifetime

Director:

Tony White

Status:

Released

Language:

English

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$0.00

Revenue:

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Cast

Michael Bates

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Narrator

Erik Chitty

~ as ~

Voice of Hokusai

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Reviews (1)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 week(s) ago
7
Given that he started drawing aged six and died aged eighty-nine, some 30,000-odd drawings later, it was always going to be nigh on impossible to do his career too much justice in five minutes, but with a charming score and a selection of some of his immaculately detailed woodblock animations it does open a door to encourage further investigation. Apparently his talents ran from drawing two perfect sparrows onto a single grain of rice to painting something so large an horse could walk through it, and the narration that augments this rapid-fire selection of imagery fills in some of the gaps in his extensive portfolio and intrigues us to look at more of his delicately crafted, shaded and lifelike works of art.