Ahead of his directorial debut release this coming weekend and the upcoming exhibition of the same name, Zachary Heinzerling presents a slow snippet of his documentary also entitled ‘Cutie and the Boxer’ featuring Japanese American art-making couple Ushio and Noriko Shinohara.
The movie portrays the tumultuous, often strenuous but loving and creative relationship between boxer/painter/boxing-painter Ushio and his assistant and wife Noriko [looking like a Japanese Disney Pocahontas] who’s illustrations -which satirize their 40 year marriage- will be presented alongside Ushio’s abstract boxing paintings in their first ever joint exhibition.
I have to say if my husband went around in public wearing Ugg boots and painted the bedroom walls with his boxing gloves, my marriage would also be tumultuous and strenuous, I wouldn’t be going that passive aggressive illustrative route, I’d be chucking his ass out Blu Cantrell “-Hit ‘Em Up Style” !
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