The Pillow Book
(1995)
★ 6.4 IMDb · 190 votes
Year: 1995
Runtime: 126 мин
Country: France, United Kingdom
Director: Peter Greenaway
Cast: 邬君梅, Ёси Оида, 緒形拳, 吉田日出子, Юэн Макгрегор, Yutaka Honda, Джуди Онгг, 光石研, Barbara Lott, Lynne Langdon
Plot
Nagito has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body and meets her ideal soulmate Jerome, an English translator sent to Japan. However, once Nagiko's father's gay publisher rejoins the scene, the story is overtaken by treachery and bloodlust.
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.