If you loved Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, 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.

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Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

2009 · dir. Morio Asaka

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Miss Hokusai

2015 · dir. Keiichi Hara

What they share

Theyboth carry the bittersweet mood tag, and they sit in Animation / Drama / History territory. If that's the register that drew you to Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, 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.

If you loved Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban, try Miss Hokusai

Ningen Shikkaku: Director's Cut-ban

Miss Hokusai

What they share

What Miss Hokusai is

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