Miss Hokusai

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Glenn Kenny, Miss Hokusai. New York Times, Oct 14, 2016 (in the page titled "Film in Review" which contains reviews of otehr films).
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/14/movies/miss-hokusai-review.html

Note:
(a) Paragraphs 1 of the review says this animation is about a woman, not a girl (who star in most animation films).

(b) "Adapted from a Hinako Sugiura manga, 'Miss Hokusai 百日紅 [1983-1987 連載; the animation film of the same title was released in Japan in May 2015]' is a lively inquiry into the life of O-Ei Hokusai, a daughter of the 19th-century painter KATSUSHIKA Hokusai 葛飾 北斎 [[1760 - 1849 (age 88)] (one of whose most famous images, 'The Great Wave [off Kanagawa 神奈川沖浪裏 (one of 富嶽三十六景, an album published in 1831),' is cleverly alluded to in an early scene). The director, Keiichi HARA [監督: 原 恵一], and the screenwriter, Miho MARUO [脚本: 丸尾 みほ], lay out the story anecdotally. The ramshackle, sometimes squalid, occasionally madcap life in the studio where O-Ei apprentices to her father contrasts with the staid, cautious domesticity of the home where O-Ei's enchanting, blind younger sister lives. O-Ei narrates occasionally, tentatively describing desires and enthusiasms."
(i) Hinako SUGIURA 杉浦 日向子 (1958 – 2005; a woman; Born Junko SUZUKI 鈴木 順子)
(ii) The daughter's given name is "O-Ei" お栄, where the "ei" is Chinese pronunciation of kanji 栄 and the "o" is an honorific (showing respect).

(c) Japanese-English dictionary:
* hi 日 【ひ】 (n): "(1) day; days; (2) sun"
* ura 浦 【うら】 (n): "inlet" of the sea

(d) "O-Ei is voiced with sensitivity and confidence by Anne Watanabe, daughter of the actor Ken Watanabe"
(i) Ken WATANABE 渡辺 謙 (1959- ; height 1.84 m)
(ii) His only biological daughter (he has a biological son) is 渡辺 杏. One Japanese pronunciation (out of quite a few) for apricot 杏 is "an" -- hence her English name Anne WATANABE (who was born in Japan and married a Japanese in 2015).

(e) 百日紅 in Japan is the flowering shrub Lagerstroemia indica.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagerstroemia_indica

Chinese name is 紫薇. Why the manga chose the shrub (or its flower) as the title, I fail to find out.