The Pillow Book

The Pillow Book (1995)
Timing: 2:6 (126 min)
The Pillow Book - TMDB rating
6.4/10
157
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Movie poster "The Pillow Book"
Release date
Genre
Drama, Romance
Budget
$0
Revenue
$2 147 483 647
Website
Director
Actors
Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida, Ewan McGregor, Yutaka Honda, Judy Ongg, Ken Mitsuishi, Barbara Lott, Lynne Langdon
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway
Producer
Kees Kasander, Tom Reeve, Denis Wigman, Terry Glinwood, Jean-Louis Piel
Operator
Composer
Artist
Audition
Abi Cohen, Aimi O, Carrie O'Brien
Editing
Short description
A woman with a body writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.

What's left behind the scenes

  • When Nagiko's mother says happy birthday, she begins speaking in Japanese and then switches to Mandarin Chinese.
  • The characters in the film mostly speak Japanese, and some subtitles are either deliberately given with errors or omitted altogether.
  • The film is included in Steven Schneider's list of "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die".
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