The Pillow Book(Movie, 1996)

Name: The Pillow Book
Genre: Drama, Romance / Love
Released: 1996
Duration: T02:6:00
Rating: 3.3

NC-17

| 2h 6min | Genres: Drama, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.3/5 (with 66 votes)

The Pillow Book is a 1996 erotic drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers. The film is a melding of dark modern drama with idealised Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centres on body painting. ()

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Awards & Nominations for The Pillow Book

Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film Award

About The Pillow Book

A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

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Additional Information

Production countries: France, United Kingdom (UK), Luxembourg

Plays in: Hong Kong, Kyoto

Based on the work of: Sei Shōnagon ("The Pillow Book")

Made by: Kasander & Wigman Productions, Nederlands Fonds voor de Film, Woodline Films Ltd., Alpha Films

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: Chinese (Cantonese) (CN), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Translated into 17 languages: Bulgarian (BG), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Persian (FA), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 06/06/1997 (World premiere: 10/11/1996)

Cast: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg, Ken Mitsuishi, Barbara Lott, Ronald Guttman, Elisabeth Ferrier, Mennan Yapo, Masaru Matsuda, Adrian Kwan, Tatsuya Kimura

Director: Peter Greenaway

Producer: Kees Kasander

Screenwriter: Peter Greenaway

Film Editor: Peter Greenaway, Chris Wyatt

Director of Photography: Sacha Vierny

Composer: Brian Eno, Joe Delia

Costume designer: Dien van Straalen, Koji Tatsuno, Martin Margiela

Make-up Artist: Sara Meerman

Production Designer: Andrée Putman, Wilbert van Dorp

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Die Bettlektüre"

Keywords: gay, cult film

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