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The Pillow Book

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Release Date: Tuesday, 15 December 1998
Country of Release: USA
MSRP: $19.96

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Directed by: Peter Greenaway

Featuring: Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida, Ewan McGregor

Three experiences make an indelible impression in a young girl's childhood: her father's tender calligraphy on her face and neck, the text of a noblewoman's sensual diary (or pillow book), and the discovery that her father is being blackmailed. These three images become a single obsession when the girl becomes a woman (Vivian Wu of The Joy Luck Club) and meets a man (Trainspotting's Ewan McGregor) who offers his body to her, both as a blank page to write upon and as a weapon of revenge. Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget.

Year: 1996
Time: 126 min.