The Pillow Book

75
  • NR
  • Genre(s):DramaRomance
  • Release year: 1996
  • Running time: 126 min
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual...read more
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As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.

Original Release

10/11/1996

US Release

06/06/1997

Cast

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Directors

Peter Greenaway

Writers

Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway

Cast

Producers

Editors

Peter Greenaway, Chris Wyatt

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