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The Pillow Book (1996)
Playing: Jerome Tagline: Things that make the heart beat faster Release date: n/a Director: Peter Greenaway Writer: Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway Co-Stars: Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg, Ken Mitsuishi, Yutaka Honda Studio: n/a Rating: n/a Runtime: 126 min Country: France / UK / Netherlands Language: English / Cantonese / Italian / Japanese / Mandarin Color: Black and White / Color Sound Mix: Dolby Certification: Argentina:16 / Australia:MA / Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) / Finland:K-16 (original rating) / France:-12 / Germany:12 / Hong Kong:III / Portugal:M/16 / South Korea:18 / Spain:13 / UK:18 / USA:Not Rated Genre: Drama / Romance Official site: n/a
Synopsis:
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.