The Pillow Book

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"Inspired by Sei Shōnagon’s first-century diary, Peter Greenaway’s The Pillow Book is an audio-visual tour de force, and a showcase for one of British cinema’s most singular talents.

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-century lady-in-waiting. Nagiko grows up, obsessed with books, papers, and writing on bodies, and her sexual odyssey (and the creation of her own Pillow Book) is a "parfait mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.

Starring Vivian Wu (8½ Women), Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting) and Ken Ogata (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters), the film is among Greenaway’s most daring and adventurous works."

Extras "INDICATOR STANDARD EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES

High Definition remaster

Original stereo audio

Selected scenes commentary with Peter Greenaway (2015, 38 mins)

The Book of the Editor (2020, 27 mins): editor Chris Wyatt recalls his work with Greenaway

Rosa (1992, 16 mins): performance film by Anne Teresa De Keersmaker’s Rosas dance company, directed by Peter Greenaway and shot by Sacha Vierny, newly restored from the original negative by Belgium’s Cinematek

Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography

Original theatrical trailer

Original theatrical calligraphic subtitle presentation

New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing"

Director: Peter Greenaway

Cast:Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor and Yoshi Oida

Ondertiteling: Engels