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The Pillow Book

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Romance • Drama, Romance, UR, 12-May-1996

As a child in 1970s Kyoto, Nagiko’s calligrapher father used her body to write a birthday message in paint. Now grown up and living in Hong Kong, she seeks a lover who will use her whole body as a blank canvas. English translator Jerome reverses roles and becomes the subject of her penmanship. They dream up a plan of creating a new Pillow Book, some 1000 years after Sei Shōnagon wrote her diary.

Tags
Calligraphy, Body decoration
Cast
Vivian Wu Nagiko
Yoshi Oida the publisher
Ken Ogata the father
Ewan McGregor Jerome
Crew
Peter Greenaway director

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