The Pillow Book Page #3

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Peter Greenaway
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  5 wins & 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
66%
NOT RATED
Year:
1996
126 min
515 Views


and shoes...

And the photographs

and diaries.

It was the second major fire

in my life.

The first fire had taken me

out of japan.

The second took me back.

hoki wrote to me.

Even after Jeromes death,

he was still very, very jealous.

He wrote to tell me about the

publisher's act of sacrilege.

I had promised Jerome 13 books.

I could not now write them

on Jeromes body.

I found substitutes in japan.

I would write the books for

the publisher as a bargain...

For the return of the pillow

book he had made of Jeromes body.

Now you've been signed by me,

You can go and do my business.

Excuse me. Can I see

the manager, please?

Let's take

another photograph.

Excuse me. Give it to the

manager and tell him we are here.

Mm-hmm.

this is the writing

of Nagiko Yujikino,

And I know you

to have blackmailed,

Violated and humiliated

my father.

I suspect you also

of ruining my husband.

You have now committed

the greatest crime.

You have desecrated

the body of my lover.

You and I now know...

That you have lived

long enough.

today, I am 28 years old.

And on my 28th birthday

I have experiences enough...

To write my own pillow book.

Think of that.

The pillow book

of Nagiko Kiyohara.

I can now make my own list

of things...

That make

the heart beat faster.

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