The Pillow Book (Blu-ray)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Vivian Wu & Ewan McGregor | |
Performer: | Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Judy Ongg & Ken Mitsuishi | |
Directed by | Peter Greenaway | |
Edited by | Peter Greenaway & Chris Wyatt | |
Screenwriting by | Peter Greenaway | |
Produced by | Kees Kasander | |
Director of Photography: | Sacha Vierny |
Entertainment Reviews:
...It's a true erotic caprice...
Entertainment Weekly
Greenaway provides a visual feast, then he kills your appetite.
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People Magazine
...A seductive and elegant story...
Chicago Sun-Times
...[An] eye-feast...
Film Comment
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The Pillow Book is erotica for bookworms. Its poetic story is told brush stroke by brush stroke, in calligraphy painted on naked bodies and in the "pillow book" or diary of Nagiko (Vivian Wu).
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Baltimore Sun
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Greenaway is a dedicated aesthete and sensualist who creates his own little worlds of cruelty, delight and artistic trickery. With tremendous brio and skill, he cuts his patterns into our minds, tickling our skins with his brush.
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Chicago Tribune
Rating: 4/5 --
Extraordinary. Ravishing. Preposterous.
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Radio Times
Product Description:
An arresting Japanese model seeks to indulge her fantasy of having calligraphy inked on her body, a whim based partly on her father's habit of painting poetry on her face when she was a girl and partly on readings from the 10th-century erotica tome "The Pillow Book." But the tables are turned when she meets a bisexual English translator who wants to be her canvas instead. An assault on the senses in the best Greenaway tradition, featuring frames-within-frames, elaborate costuming and production design, painterly shot composition, and utterly frank scenes of nudity and violence.