This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio ...
This candid New York love story explores the chaotic 40-year marriage of famed boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and his wife, Noriko. Anxious to shed her role as her overbearing husband's assistant, Noriko finds an identity of her own.
For year, Ushio Shinohara has been one of the leading, and most underappreciated, alternative artists in Japan and New York City with an wildly esoteric style. For many of those year, his wife, Noriko, has been a faithful companion to this idiosyncratic man, but grew want to be more. This film cover the relationhip of these special couple as Ushio struggles for commercial success on his own terms. Meanwhile, we also follow Noriko puruing her own artistic vision with her semi-autobiographical line art project that reveals much about her own soul as eloquently as her husband's work.
