The Pillow Book / videorecording
Director: Peter Greenaway
- Kasander & Wigman Productions, 1996
- DVD with booklet
- 126 min.
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor and Yoshi Oida
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 mľange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
German and English language
Drama--Romance
Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor and Yoshi Oida
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 mľange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
German and English language
Drama--Romance