The Pillow Book
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- Synopsis
- 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 ......
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- Starring
- Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida
- Director(s)
- Peter Greenaway
- Distributor(s)
- Film Four Distributors
- MPAA Rating
- NC-17
- Runtime
- 123 min.
Critic Reviews
The Pillow Book is Peter Greenaway's most stunning and accessible film since "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover." Dense, gorgeous and inexorable - once you give yourself over to its logic - it's a boldly erotic explosion of Asian chic, taken to places no film has gone before. [20 Jun 1997]Read the full review
The Pillow Book, starring Vivian Wu, is a seductive and elegant story.Read the full review
The film is best watched as a richly sensual stylistic exercise filled with audaciously beautiful imagery, captivating symmetries and brilliantly facile tricks.Read the full review
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