Outreach
Video Lending Library
Japan
- Program Title: The Pillow Book
- EASC Code: JP-09
- Series Title:
- Region/Country: Japan
- Language: Japanese
- Subtitles: English
- Subject: Arts & Music
- Program Type: Feature
- Media Type: DVD & VHS
- Director: Peter Greenaway
- Producer: Kees Kasander
- Release Date: 1998
- Running Time: 126 min.
- Color or BW: Color
- Program Abstract: 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.
- Data Entry Date: 12/1/06
