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.
Release Date: 6 June 1997Runtime: 126 min
Stars:
- Aki Ishimaru
- Barbara Lott
- Chizuru Ohnishi
- Ewan McGregor
- Hideko Yoshida
- Hisashi Hidaka
- Judy Ongg
- Ken Mitsuishi
- Ken Ogata
- Lynne Langdon
- Miwako Kawai
- Shiho Takamatsu
- Vivian Wu
- Yoshi Oida
- Yutaka Honda
Director: Peter Greenaway
