The Pillow Book
by Peter Greenaway
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Actor: Ewan McGregor, Hideko Yoshida, Ken Ogata, Vivian Wu, Yoshi OidaDirector: Peter Greenaway
Brand: Sony
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Producer: Denis Wigman
Producer: Jean-Louis Piel
Producer: Jessinta Liu
Producer: Kees Kasander
Producer: Terry Glinwood
Writer: Sei Shonagon
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.33:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-12-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Pillow Book
Movie Review: This is not the widescreen edition
Summary: 4 Stars
This is not the widescreen edition. It's a great movie but but the TV format lops off a lot of the great visuals.
Summary of The Pillow Book
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Run time: 121 minutes Rating: NrPeter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Drowning by Numbers) continues to delight and disturb us with his talent for combining storytelling with optic artistry. The Pillow Book is divided into 10 chapters (consistent with Greenaway's love of numbers and lists) and is shot to be viewed like a book, complete with tantalizing illustrations and footnotes (subtitles) and using television's "screen-in-screen" technology. As a child in Japan, Nagiko's father celebrates her birthday retelling the Japanese creation myth and writing on her flesh in beautiful calligraphy, while her aunt reads a list of "beautiful things" from a 10th-century pillow book. As she gets older, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) looks for a lover with calligraphy skills to continue the annual ritual. She is initially thrilled when she encounters Jerome (Ewan McGregor), a bisexual translator who can speak and write several languages, but soon realizes that although he is a magnificent lover, his penmanship is less than acceptable. When Nagiko dismisses the enamored Jerome, he suggests she use his flesh as the pages which to present her own pillow book. The film, complete with a musical score as international as the languages used in the narration, is visually hypnotic and truly an immense "work of art." --Michele Goodson
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