The Pillow Book

Directed by Peter Greenaway
NC-17
1997    2h 6m[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Romance](/on-demand/category/romance)
6.568%80%6.4
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.

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Cast of The Pillow Book

  • Vivian WuNagiko
  • Yoshi OidaThe Publisher
  • Ken OgataThe Father
  • Hideko YoshidaThe Aunt / The Maid
  • Ewan McGregorJerome
  • Yutaka HondaHoki
  • Judy OnggThe Mother
  • Ken MitsuishiThe Husband
  • Barbara LottJerome's Mother
  • Lynne LangdonJerome's sister
  • Ronald GuttmanCalligrapher
  • Samuel Leung Cheuk-Moon
  • Adrian Kwan
  • Peter GreenawayDirector / Writer / Editor
  • Sei ShonagonWriter
  • Kees KasanderProducer
  • Terry GlinwoodExecutive Producer
  • Jean-Louis PielExecutive Producer
  • Tom ReeveExecutive Producer
  • Denis WigmanExecutive Producer

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