The Pillow Book (1995)

Movie Details

Original Title The Pillow Book

Original Language EN

Status Released

Popularity 0.8

Cast

Vivian Wu

Nagiko

Popularity: 1.7

Yoshi Oida

The Publisher

Popularity: 0.2

Ken Ogata

The Father

Popularity: 1.7

Hideko Yoshida

The Aunt / The Maid

Popularity: 0.9

Ewan McGregor

Jerome

Popularity: 5.9

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Yutaka Honda

Hoki

Popularity: 0.2

Judy Ongg

The Mother

Popularity: 0.9

Ken Mitsuishi

The Husband

Popularity: 1.6

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Barbara Lott

Jerome's Mother

Popularity: 0.3

Lynne Langdon

Jerome's sister

Popularity: 0.1

Ronald Guttman

Calligrapher

Popularity: 4.1

Samuel Leung Cheuk-Moon

Popularity: 1.3

Key Crew

Director Peter Greenaway

Editor Peter Greenaway, Chris Wyatt

Writer Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway

Producer Kees Kasander

Executive Producer Terry Glinwood, Denis Wigman, Jean-Louis Piel

Production

Kasander & Wigman Productions

Alpha Films

Nederlands Fonds voor de Film

Woodline Films Ltd.

Film4 Productions

Videos & Trailers

Mark Kermode reviews The Pillow Book (1996) | BFI Player

Featurette

The Pillow Book (1996) trailer

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Keywords

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Reviews from TMDB

CinemaSerf 7/10

Jan 26, 2024

Hmmm. The thing about films that showcase the male body quite this much is that after a while you start wondering why blokes with perfect physiques and faces always seem to have such an underwhelming payload down below! Anyway, the young "Nagiko" (Vivian Wu) recalls the memories from her childhood w ... Read more