Miss Hokusai Listed for March on Home Video

Joseph Luster January 6, 2017

Last fall, GKIDS presented a North American theatrical run for director Keiichi Hara’s Miss Hokusai anime film. Now it’s time to start looking forward to the home video release, which Amazon currently has listed for March 7.

Miss Hokusai will be available on DVD and in a multi-format package that includes DVD, Blu-ray, and a digital copy.

Here’s the official description:

As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently inside his studio. Her masterful portraits, dragons and erotic sketches – sold under the name of her father – are coveted by upper crust Lords and journeyman print makers alike. Shy and reserved in public, in the studio O-Ei is as brash and uninhibited as her father, smoking a pipe while sketching drawings that would make contemporary Japanese ladies blush. But despite this fiercely independent spirit, O-Ei struggles under the domineering influence of her father and is ridiculed for lacking the life experience that she is attempting to portray in her art. Miss Hokusai‘s bustling Edo (present day Tokyo) is filled with yokai spirits, dragons, and conniving tradesmen, while O-Ei’s relationships with her demanding father and blind younger sister provide a powerful emotional underpinning to this sumptuously-animated coming-of-age tale.

And a couple clips from GKIDS’ release: