Hokusai

In the Edo-era, young impecunious artist Katsushika Hokusai lived in downtown Edo. He was shabby and lived from hand to mouth with little money he earned by selling his painting on the streets. But Tsutaya Juzaburo, the one of a kind publisher, discovered Hokusai’s hidden talent and led him to unleash his potentials. With Juzaburo’s help, Hokusai found the essence of drawing and his talent bloomed. Meanwhile, the entertainment ban came in effect by the Edo shogunate. While Hokusai became older, he built a strong relationship with Ryutei Tanehiko, the popular playwright, who was born as a samurai and was distressed in creating new plays because of the prohibition. Eventually Tanehiko got executed by the shogunate. Hokusai came out with all his repulsion against the Edo shogunate on his vivid drawings.