The Great Wave off the ... It depicts the life of Hokusai and the many challenges he faced during a career that spanned over 70 years. Scriptwriter Len Kawahara says the idea of the film came ...

Libby Purves meets actor Brian Cox and singer June Tabor. Coming up at: 21:58 Weather View full schedule Hokusai's 'The Great Wave' (painted about 1830), from Japan In the early nineteenth century ...