Bowers Museum Film: Hokusai - Old Man Crazy to Paint (2017)

Bowers Museum in collaboration with The British Museum presents the film, Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint (2017).  This is the first UK film biography of the world-renowned Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), whose print The Great Wave is as globally famous as Leonardo's Mona Lisa. With Andy Serkis reading the voice of Hokusai, the film features artists David Hockney and Maggi Hambling and passionate scholars who study, admire, and venerate this great Japanese master.