The Pillow Book backdrop
The Pillow Book poster

The Pillow Book

1995 2h 6m English 6.5
Action, Drama
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.—Michael C. Berch

Cast

Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor
as Jerome
Ken Mitsuishi
Ken Mitsuishi
as The Husband
Ken Ogata
Ken Ogata
as The Father
Vivian Wu
Vivian Wu
as Nagiko

Screenshots

Movie screenshot
Movie screenshot
Movie screenshot

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