The Pillow Book (1996, Director: Peter Greenaway)

"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." ...Michael C. Berch, IMDB

 

 

Cast

	Vivian Wu	...	Nagiko
	Yoshi Oida	...	The Publisher
	Ken Ogata	...	The Father
	Hideko Yoshida	...	The Aunt / The Maid
	Ewan McGregor	...	Jerome
	Judy Ongg	...	The Mother
	Ken Mitsuishi	...	The Husband
	Yutaka Honda	...	Hoki
	Barbara Lott	...	Jerome's Mother
	Miwako Kawai	...	Young Nagiko
	Lynne Langdon	...	Jerome's sister (as Lynne Frances Wachendorfer)
	Chizuru Ohnishi	...	Young Nagiko
	Shiho Takamatsu	...	Young Nagiko
	Aki Ishimaru	...	Young Nagiko
	Hisashi Hidaka	...	Calligrapher