Interesting look at art and a stressful marriage. Ushio Shinohara (80 as the film begins) and his wife of 40 years, Noriko (58 at the start,) , have managed to survive in NYC through occasional sales of his super-pop cardboard sculpture of motorcycles, paintings, and his better known boxing paintings that reflect his pummeling canvas wearing sponged boxing gloves. She was his assistant but has found her own voice—and critical acclaim—of late, in her Cutie series of paintings and graphic representations of their marriage as Cutie and the Bully. Their tense union, his 35+ years of alcoholism, their alcoholic son—also an artist—are portrayed in intimate interaction. Reality TV influenced, this non-narrative documentary follows them for a year and a half but took many years more to make. Oscar-nominated, this film looks at art and marriage and, given the trajectory, gender in a different sort of ex-pat community Neither is particularly comfortable with English. As Ushio, ever the supreme egoist despite his years says in an interview at Sundance, “I thought this was going to be about my art, instead it’s a love story”. See this one