The Pillow Book
by Peter Greenaway
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Actor: Ewan McGregor, Hideko Yoshida, Ken Ogata, Vivian Wu, Yoshi OidaDirector: Peter Greenaway
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
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: Pillow Book
Summary: 3 Stars
A rather exotic tale concerning Japanese calligraphy and its use in writing messages on the human body. If you are a fan of Peter Greenaway films, you will like this movie. But, it might not appeal to everyone.
Summary of The Pillow Book
Peter 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 GoodsonArt House & International DVD Video
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