Director:Zachary Heinzerling
Produced by: Zachary Heinzerling,
Lydia Dean Pilcher,
Patrick Burns,
Sierra Pettengill, Executive:Kiki Miyake Running time:82
min Country:United States Language:English
Genre:Documentary, Biography
Cutie and the Boxer is a candid New York love story
about life and art that explores the chaotic 40-year
marriage of renowned boxing painter Ushio Shinohara
and his wife and artist Noriko.
A reflection on love, sacrifice, and the creative
spirit, this candid New York story explores the chaotic
40-year marriage of renowned boxing painter Ushio
Shinohara and his artist wife, Noriko. As a rowdy,
confrontational young artist in Tokyo, Ushio seemed
destined for fame, but met with little commercial
success after he moved to New York City in 1969, seeking
international recognition. When 19-year-old Noriko moved
to New York to study art, she fell in love with
Ushioabandoning her education to become the wife and
assistant to an unruly, husband. Over the course of
their marriage, the roles have shifted. Now 80, Ushio
struggles to establish his artistic legacy, while Noriko
is at last being recognized for her own arta series of
drawings entitled Cutie, depicting her challenging
past with Ushio. Spanning four decades, the film is a
moving portrait of a couple wrestling with the eternal
themes of sacrifice, disappointment and aging, against a
background of lives dedicated to art.
