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Release Date:
6 June 1997 (USA) moreTagline:
Things that make the heart beat faster. morePlot:
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book"... more | add synopsisAwards:
5 wins & 1 nomination moreNewsDesk:
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Meet Ewan McGregor (From ReelTalkTV.com. 15 May 2009, 1:42 PM, PDT)
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Interesting, but too calculated to be truly erotic moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Vivian Wu | ... | Nagiko | |
| Yoshi Oida | ... | The Publisher | |
| Ken Ogata | ... | The Father | |
| Hideko Yoshida | ... | The Aunt / The Maid | |
| Ewan McGregor | ... | Jerome | |
| Judy Ongg | ... | The Mother | |
| Ken Mitsuishi | ... | The Husband | |
| Yutaka Honda | ... | Hoki | |
| Barbara Lott | ... | Jerome's Mother | |
| Miwako Kawai | ... | Young Nagiko | |
| Lynne Langdon | ... | Jerome's sister (as Lynne Frances Wachendorfer) | |
| Chizuru Ohnishi | ... | Young Nagiko | |
| Shiho Takamatsu | ... | Young Nagiko | |
| Aki Ishimaru | ... | Young Nagiko | |
| Hisashi Hidaka | ... | Calligrapher |
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126 minAspect Ratio:
1.75 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canada:18A | Singapore:R(A) (cut) | USA:NC-17 (original rating) | Argentina:16 | Australia:MA | Finland:K-15 (DVD rating) | Finland:K-16 (original rating) | France:-12 | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:III | Portugal:M/16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:13 | UK:18 | USA:Not RatedFun Stuff
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Director Trademark: [Peter Greenaway] [cont]In the Hong Kong sequences, there are numerous minor continuity errors involving the position of characters or placement of objects. moreGoofs:
Boom mic visible: Mike visible during wide shot when Nagiko kneels and Jerome signs his name on her back. 01:03:59 into the film on PAL DVDs. moreQuotes:
Nagiko: How can I get pleasure writing on you? You have to write on me.Jerome: Go on. Use my body like the pages of a book. Of your book.
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Like many of Peter Greenaway's movies, Pillow Book features extensive nudity. However, while the plot development is well worked out, the cast is competent, and Greenaway shows off a dazzling array of cinematic techniques, he always seems to approach his material too intellectually to really engage the viewer's emotions. I cannot know his intentions, but my impression is that he regards his scripts as more akin to a complex mathematical puzzle to be worked out than a story about real people with human feelings, leaving the movie worth watching but curiously cool and clinical rather than passionately erotic.