The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1997-06-06

Languages:

English, Cantonese, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, French

Countries:

Netherlands, UK, France, Luxembourg

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (10207 Reviews)

Director:

Peter Greenaway

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Sei Shonagon (book)

Peter Greenaway

Sei Shonagon

Fullplot:

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 mèlange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.

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