The Pillow Book (1995)
Not Rated 06 Jun 1997 • Drama • 2h 6m
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.
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Language:
English, Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin, French, Italian
Awards:
5 wins & 3 nominations
Country:
Netherlands, United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg
Metacritic Score:
64
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Box Office Total:
$2,372,744