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Product Information

A woman who as a child had a birthday message written on her face by a calligrapher, searches for a lover who will use her body to write on.

Product Identifiers

ProducerKees Kasander

EAN5060697920079

eBay Product ID (ePID)13048555480

Product Key Features

ActorYoshi Oida, Barbara Lott, Vivian Wu, Ken Mitsuishi, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg, Ewan McGregor, Yutaka Honda, Ken Ogata

Film/TV TitleThe Pillow Book

DirectorPeter Greenaway

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageEnglish

Run Time123 Mins

FormatBlu-ray

Release Year2020

Features(Limited Edition), Closed Caption, With Subtitles

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate18

Hearing ImpairedEnglish

Production DesignerWilbert Van Dorp, Emi Wada, Andree Putman

ReviewsSight and Sound - ...Breathtaking...Erotic...Curiously moving..., New York Times - ...A richly sensual stylistic exercise filled with audaciously beautiful imagery....THE PILLOW BOOK has been stunningly photographed..., Variety - ...Enormously impressive....[A] uniquely bold and arresting depiction of exotic erotica..., Entertainment Weekly - ...It's a true erotic caprice..., Film Comment - ...[An] eye-feast...

Additional InformationAn arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when she meets a bisexual English translator who wants to be her canvas instead. An assault on the senses in the best Greenaway tradition, featuring frames-within-frames, elaborate costuming and production design, painterly shot composition, and utterly frank scenes of nudity and violence.

ScreenwriterPeter Greenaway

Costume DesignerKoji Tatsuno, Emi Wada, Martin Margiela, Dien van Straalen

Sound sourceDolby Digital

Movie/TV TitleThe Pillow Book

EditorPeter Greenaway, Chris Wyatt

Director of PhotographySacha Vierny

Consumer AdviceContains strong gore and sexualised nudity