Pillow Book Director: Peter Greenaway Cast: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata
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- DVD Release Date: 12/15/1998
- Original Release: 1996
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- Sales Rank: 24,897
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Features
Theatrical trailer; Scene selections
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Scene Selections
0. Scene Selections
1. Start [2:17]
2. Birthday greeting [3:42]
3. The Pillow Book [15:03]
4. Arranged marriage [6:28]
5. The first fire [5:42]
6. Calligrapher lovers [5:24]
7. Jerome [10:58]
8. Rejection [3:28]
9. Seduction [11:20]
10. Jerome's Plan [1:32]
11. First Book [5:21]
12. Second & Third Book [1:25]
13. Fourth Book [:23]
14. Fifth Book [5:02]
15. Hoki's advice [2:53]
16. Like Romeo & Juliet [3:38]
17. Book of the Lover [3:03]
18. Funeral [2:24]
19. The second fire [1:21]
20. Sixth Book [5:23]
21. Seventh Book [1:55]
22. Eighth Book [3:47]
23. Ninth Book [2:03]
24. Tenth Book [:48]
25. Eleventh Book [:25]
26. Twelfth Book [1:24]
27. Thirteenth Book [5:53]
28. 28th Brithday [7:42]
Editorial Reviews
Peter Greenaway directed this elliptical and visually intricate tale of the far side of erotic and intellectual attraction. As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) read aloud from The Pillow Book, a classic Japanese text on the art of love. As Nagiko (Vivian Wu) reached adulthood, her father insisted on putting a stop to this ritual, and he persuaded her to marry the nephew of his publisher (Ken Mitsuishi). But Nagiko is not satisfied with her husband, and after finding success as a model, she seeks a lover who will indulge her fondness for literature by writing verse on her naked body. In time, she finds happiness with a British expatriate named Jerome (Ewan McGregor), who persuades her to use his body as paper for her poetry, but the interference of her father's publisher (Yoshi Oida) gives their relationship a tragic turn. Greenaway deliberately mistranslated some of the French and Japanese dialogue for The Pillow Book, hoping that the occasionally fractured language would give the film a "Tower of Babel" quality. Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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