Ayaka Nakata

Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika Hokusai and his second wife Koto. Although Oei became the wife of a town painter for a time, her love of the paintbrush more than her husband spelt disaster and she comes back home to Hokusai from the family she had married into. This is how Oei starts to help her father out in his painting of the “insurmountable high wall”. Meanwhile, Oei can only talk to the painter Ikeda Zenjiro, who is her father’s student, about her pain and worries. Zenjiro has taken Edo by storm as Keisai Eisen, the master of ukiyo-e portraying beautiful women. He visits regularly because he admires Hokusai and secretly likes Oei although their relationship is like childhood friends. Oei respects her father whose paintings fascinated her and continues to work as a painter who supports him behind the scenes. When Hokusai’s masterpiece Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji was completed, she was also by his side.

Chinese filmmaker François Chang studies in Paris. One day, he saw on YouTube a video of a Japanese girl involved in a paranormal event. He decided to look for her in Japan and to record everything. The film is entirely shot by iPhone and Go-pro.

Questioning the meaning of people's lives, the multiple stories include the work of a manga artist, old men get involved in a fight and a murder, a bus incident which affects those who survive it, fishing, cherry-blossom viewing and more

元刑事の藤島昭和（役所広司）のもとに、ある日別れた妻から、娘の加奈子（小松菜奈）の行方がわからなくなったと連絡が入る。家族を失った原因について顧みずに、理想の家族像を手に入れようと思い描き、なりふり構わず娘の行方を追う藤島。娘の交友関係を洗ううちに、成績優秀で学校の人気者だったはずの加奈子のとんでもない側面が露わになっていく……。