The Pillow Book
Drama, Romance
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1995
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Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
Director:
Cast:
,
Ewan McGregor
,
Yoshi Oida
,
Lynne Langdon
,
Vivian Wu
,
Ken Ogata
,
Hideko Yoshida
,
Ken Mitsuishi
,
Barbara Lott
,
Judy Ongg
,
Yutaka Honda
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Details
Runtime:
126 min
Release date:
1 Sep 1995
Country:
FR, GB, LU
Languages:
English, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, French, cn
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
5 wins & 4 nominations total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
At first daunting but ultimately awesomely impressive and beautiful.
– David Stratton,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
A very intimate, sensual film, and a torrid, lurid melodrama, full of passion, jealousy, hatred and revenge.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
A seductive and elegant story that combines a millennium of Japanese art and fetishes with the story of a neurotic modern woman who tells a lover: "Treat me like the pages of a book."
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
9 Apr 2004
rotten:
Greenaway, whose mind is one of the most impressive, complicated organs that ever sat on the shoulders of a filmmaker, seems to be playing connect the dots to himself, almost dumbing himself down to be commercial.
– Desson Thomson,
Washington Post,
22 Jan 2002
rotten:
Despite its arresting visual style, its wave after wave of creative and hypnotic images, "The Pillow Book," as its name hints, slowly but inexorably leads to sleep.
– Kenneth Turan,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Feb 2001