Takizawa Bakoto, een populaire schrijver uit de Edo-periode, begint zijn vriend, de kunstenaar Katsushika Hokusai, een verhaal te vertellen dat hij aan het ontwikkelen is, genaamd 'Hakkenden.' Om de vloek op de familie Satomi te verbreken, verzamelen acht zwaardvechters met acht kralen zich alsof ze door het lot worden geleid. Het is een prachtig en bizar verhaal over een felle strijd. Hokusai is meteen gefascineerd. Benieuwd naar wat er daarna zou gebeuren, bezocht hij Bakin regelmatig en maakte schetsen die als inspiratie zouden dienen voor Bakins creaties. Het verhaal, werd populair , maar toen het zijn hoogtepunt bereikte,wordt Bakin blind. Net als het hopeloos lijkt dat het project voltooid zal worden, krijgt hij een aanbod van zijn schoondochter met de vraag of hij haar kan helpen.
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.
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.
Toen Mio jong was, verloor ze haar ouders in een grote overstroming en raakte ze ook gescheiden van haar beste vriend Noe. Daarna vond Mio haar talent in koken en werd uiteindelijk kok. Inmiddels is Noe een oiran (hooggeplaatste courtisane) geworden.
The unknown life of Ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai in the Edo period, who is said to have painted more than 30,000 works throughout his life, such as "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji"
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where she learns how to cook. When she turns 18, she moves to Edo (today's Tokyo) where she opens her own restaurant.
It is the Spring of 1814. The restaurant “Tsuru-ka” is gaining much popularity after its chef, Mio, won the prestigious cooking competition. One day, the owner of “Tsuru-ka”, Taneichi, employed young Fuki to be the attendant for customers’ shoes. Mio could fully empathize with young Fuki, who was an orphan and yet was courageous enough to survive on her own. Around the same time, the famous novelist Seiemon started coming to “Tsuru-ka”. Even though Seiemon criticized Mio’s cooking each time, he always returned to the restaurant daily.