The official trailer and poster visual for " Oi, Oui " (released October 17th), the first period drama starring actor Masami Nagasawa , were released on July 24th.
Oui Oi, the daughter of Katsushika Hokusai, a representative ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, was a real person who learned painting from her father and teacher Hokusai, and ran through a male-dominated society with the artistic talent and boldness inherited from her father. She was one of the few female artists to wield a paintbrush that even Hokusai acknowledged, saying, "I can't compete with her in painting beautiful women," but there are only a few of her works remaining in the world, and her life is shrouded in mystery.
This work, with Oui as the protagonist, portrays the life of a man who, although foul-mouthed, lived true to his heart and continued to have a passion for painting throughout his life.
The one-minute trailer begins with a shouting match between Oei (Oui), played by Nagasawa, and Hokusai, played by Nagase Masatoshi. Oei, a divorced woman who has returned to her parents' home and lives with her father in a dingy tenement house, is seen concentrating on her brush, puffing on her kiseru pipe with practiced ease, and going about her life with a strong gaze that refuses to pander to the world.
Also appearing in the video are shots of Oei's mother, played by Terajima Shinobu, and Oui's disciple and popular artist Hatsugoro (Totoya Hokkei), played by Otani Ryohei.
The poster features Oui, Hokusai, and Zenjiro holding brushes in front of their respective works. For Oui, the background is "Yoshiwara Koshisakinozu," which depicts the light and darkness of the Yoshiwara red-light district, for Hokusai, his own work "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji: Behind the Great Wave off Kanagawa," and for Zenjiro, "Koi no Taki no Bori Uchikake" by Keisai Eisen, who specialized in portraits of beautiful women.
*The "taka" in Takahashi Kaito's name is pronounced as "ladder".
