If you loved Lonely Castle in the Mirror, try Miss Hokusai
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Keiichi Hara, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Lonely Castle in the Mirror, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Miss Hokusai is
The ukiyo-e apprentice steals light from her father’s shadow in *Miss Hokusai*. Sharp urban sketches and ghostly folklore collide as she sketches demons by day and lives beside Ukiyo’s booming print shop by night. A ghost-writer who never signs her work.
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