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| Year: | 1996 |
| Rating: | 6.5(6936) |
| Listed in: | Drama, Romance |
| Directed by: | Peter Greenaway |
| Actors: | Yoshi Oida Ken Ogata Ewan McGregor Vivian Wu Hideko Yoshida Judy Ongg |
| "Things that make the heart beat faster." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Peter Greenaway | |
| Actors | |
| Yoshi Oida | as The Publisher |
| Ken Ogata | as The Father |
| Ewan McGregor | as Jerome |
| Ken Mitsuishi | as The Husband |
| Yutaka Honda | as Hoki |
| Hisashi Hidaka | as Calligrapher |
| Dehong Chen | as Calligrapher |
| Ham-Chau Luong | as Calligrapher |
| Akihiko Nishida | as Calligrapher |
| Kentaro Matsuo | as Calligrapher |
| Nguyen Duc Nhan | as Calligrapher |
| Augusto Aristotle | as Calligrapher |
| Roger To Thanh Hien | as Calligrapher |
| Chris Bearne | as Calligrapher |
| Ronald Guttman | as Calligrapher |
| Wichert Dromkert | as The Book of the Innocent |
| Martin Tukker | as The Book of the Idiot |
| Wu Wei | as The Book of Old Age |
| Tom Kane | as The Book of the Exhibitionist |
| Kheim Lam | as The Book of the Seducer |
| Daishi Hori | as The Book of Youth |
| Kinya Tsuruyama | as The Book of Secrets |
| Eiichi Tanaka | as The Book of the Betrayer |
| Rick Waney | as The Book of Silence |
| Masaru Matsuda | as The Book of Birth and Beginnings |
| Wataru Murofushi | as The Book of the Dead |
| Seitaro Koyama | as Nephew |
| Tatsuya Kimura | as Nephew |
| Yoshihiko Nagata | as Husband's Friend |
| Atsushi Miura | as Husband's Friend |
| Kazushi Ishimaru | as Baby Nagiko |
| Kintaro Murayama | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Seizo H. Inoue | as 10th Century Man |
| Yoshihiro Kawai | as 10th Century Man |
| Munenari Takeshima | as 10th Century Man |
| Toshio Kimura | as 10th Century Man |
| Masakazu Takemura | as 10th Century Man |
| Hiroshi Nakajima | as 10th Century Man |
| Kageyoshi Shirakata | as 10th Century Man |
| Takashi Miyake | as 10th Century Man |
| Jim Adhi Limas | as Man in Lift |
| Tien Sing Wang | as Intruder |
| Chau | |
| See Wah Leung | as Intruder |
| Kha | |
| Maskai Taketani | as Young Male Secretary |
| Mr. Luo | |
| See Yan Leung | as Bookshop Manager |
| François Van Den Bergen | as Book of Seducer |
| C.S. Wong | |
| Sam | |
| Shuen Ngar Lei | |
| Chan Ben | |
| Andrew Chan | |
| Chau Kwok Kwan | |
| Ho Keung Kwong | |
| Sammuel Leung | |
| Jo Jo Hui | |
| Louis Fu Yiu Shi | |
| Paul Wan | |
| Adrian Kwan | |
| Leung Woo | |
| Hui Pak Kin | |
| Man Kit | |
| Li Chun Man | |
| Stephen C. Lam | |
| Edelmer Christanse | |
| Jimmy Lee Wai Chang | |
| Terence Tsin Chung Tung | |
| Mennan Yapo | as Café Typo Manager |
| Actresses | |
| Vivian Wu | as Nagiko |
| Hideko Yoshida | as The Aunt/The Maid |
| Judy Ongg | as The Mother |
| Barbara Lott | as Jerome's Mother |
| Miwako Kawai | as Young Nagiko |
| Lynne Langdon | as Jerome's sister |
| Chizuru Ohnishi | as Young Nagiko |
| Shiho Takamatsu | as Young Nagiko |
| Aki Ishimaru | as Young Nagiko |
| Ryuke Azuma | as Grandmother |
| Hikari Abe | as Nagiko's Baby |
| Ai Kanafuji | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Yoshino Yoshioka | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Yuki Nou | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Masami Nishio | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Satomi Kimura | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Michiko Matsuo | as Nagiko's Friend |
| Ann | |
| Kaoru Ueda | as Model |
| Ohko | as Model |
| Junko Shinohara | as Model |
| Yûko Nozawa | as Model |
| Kiyomi Nomura | as Model |
| Midori Hatsuda | as Model |
| Miwa Hayashi | as Model |
| Hiroko Uno | as 10th Century Woman |
| Yûko Shimomura | as 10th Century Woman |
| Kana Haraguchi | as 10th Century Woman |
| Yuri Inoue | as 10th Century Woman |
| Makiko Shoji | as 10th Century Woman |
| Miwako Namie | as 10th Century Woman |
| Atsuko Nakamura | as 10th Century Woman |
| Tokiko Horiike | as 10th Century Woman |
| Akiko Yokotani | as 10th Century Woman |
| Yasuyo Ogawa | as 10th Century Woman |
| Atsuko Yoshikawa | as 10th Century Woman |
| Mariko Ajimoto | as 10th Century Woman |
| Hiromi Tani | as 10th Century Woman |
| Fukue Kitaoka | as 10th Century Woman |
| Arnita Swanson | as Edele |
| Miho Tanaka | as Model Friend in Cafe Typo |
| Fabienne De Marco | as Model Friend in Cafe Typo |
| Tania De Jaeger | as Model Friend in Cafe Typo |
| Jinhua Lu | as Wife of Calligrapher |
| Kumi Komino | as Elderly Secretary |
| Yuki Hayashi | as Young Female Secretary |
| Mrs. Luo | |
| Valerie Buchanan | |
| Yorks Tong | |
| Anna Chu | |
| Michelle Nicholson | as Model |
| Farini Cheung | |
| Anita Leung Fui Shan | |
| Tom Tom | |
| Doris Lui Lai Fong | |
| Bobsy Jureidini | |
| Vanessa Lanza | |
| Foon Wing Hong |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, Cantonese, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, French |
| Gross: |
USA - 980,396 USD (29 June 1997) |
| Plot: | 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. |
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"Offering to the Saviour Gompo" Performed by Buddhist Lamas & Monks of the Four Great Orders Courtesy of Lyrichord Disks New York "A Buddhist Prayer"" Performed by Buddhist Lamas & Monks of the Four Great Orders Courtesy of Lyrichord Disks New York "Invocations of Gompo" Performed by Buddhist Lamas & Monks of the Four Great Orders Courtesy of Lyrichord Disks New York "Ranryo Ou" Court music of Japan Performed by Tokyo Gasuko Courtesy of Victor Entertainment "Nasori" Court music of Japan Performed by Tokyo Gasuko Courtesy of Victor Entertainment "Manzairaku" Court music of Japan Performed by Tokyo Gasuko Courtesy of Victor Entertainment "Wedding Song" Performed by A Village Ensemble, Aqcha, Afghanistan Courtesy of Topic Records Lrd "Blonde" Performed by Guesch Patti & E. Daho Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing France SA "La Marquise" Performed by Guesch Patti & Dimitri Tikovoi Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing France SA "La Chinoise" Performed by Guesch Patti & Dimitri Tikovoi Courtesy of EMI Music Publishing France SA "Taimu-Mashin no nai Jidai" Performed by Cawai Miwako Courtesy of Fun house Publihsers, Inc "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car" Written by U2 Performed by U2 Courtesy of Polygram International "Sinfonia Concertante in A Fur Violine, Viola, Violoncello und Orchester" Written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, reconstructor Shigeaki Saegusa Performed by Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, conductor Hans Guraf Courtesy of May Music, Japan "Valse" extract from The Frist String Quartet "La Theorie" Written by Walter Hus Performed by Quadro Quartet Courtesy of Het Gerucht / Uncle Dan's "Je Suis La Resurrection" Performed by Autopsia Courtesy of Hypnobeat Records "Ai no Meguriai" Performed by Judy Ongg Courtesy of Nichion "Qui Tolis" Extract from "Rome" Written by Patrick Mimran Performed by James Bowman Courtesy of Wisteria Publishing, Amsterdam "Rose, Rose I Love You" Performed by Yao Lee Courtesy of EMI SE Asia Ltd "Teki Wa Ikuman" Performed by Ichjiro Wakahar Courtesy of King Records "Aiba Shingun-ka" Performed by Hachiro Kasuga Courtesy of King Records "Chicken Bandit-The-Blistered-Corn" Performed by Lam Man Chun and eric Tsang Courtesy of New Melody Publishing/Bird and Child Ltd "Suiren" Performed by Yasuaki Shimizu Courtesy of Nippon Columbia Berlin |
Goofs
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Revealing mistakes: SPOILER: When Nagiko finds Jerome's corpse, it is breathing. BOOM: Mike visible during wide shot when Nagiko kneels and Jerome signs his name on her back. 01:03:59 into the film on PAL DVDs. |
Quotes
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Nagiko: If writings did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer. Nagiko: I need writing. Don't ask why. Just take out your pen and write on my arm. Nagiko: I like the smell of paper - all kinds. It reminds me of the scent of skin. Nagiko: When God made the first clay model of a human being, He painted in the eyes... the lips... and the sex. And then He painted in each person's name lest the person should ever forget it. If God approved of His creation, He brought the painted clay model into life by signing His own name. Nagiko: Warm rain falling from the mountainous clouds. Walking slowly dressed in crimson thinking of Kyoto. Kissed by a lover in the Matsuo Tiasha garden. Quiet water and loud water. Love in the afternoon in imitation of history. Love before and love after. If God approved of His creation. He brought the painted clay-model to life. By signing His own name. Flesh and the writing table. Writing of love and finding it. The Aunt: This is a book written a long time ago. It is called The Pillow Book and written by a lady who has the same first name as you - Nagiko. When you are twenty-eight years old this book will be exactly a thousand years old. Think of that. Nagiko: Anything coloured Indigo is splendid; Indigo coloured flowers, Indigo thread, and especially indigo paper. Nagiko: The smell of white paper is like the scent of skin of a new lover who has just paid a surprise visit out of a rainy garden. And the black ink is like lacquered hair. And the quill? Well, the quill is like that instrument of pleasure whose purpose is never in doubt but whose surprising efficiency one always, always forgets. Nagiko: Farewells can be both beautiful and despicable. Saying farewell to one who is loved is very complicated. Why should a person be obligated to stand such sweet pain and such bitter pleasure? Nagiko: You've been reading my diary? The Husband: Isn't that why people keep diaries? To be read by someone else? Otherwise why keep them? Nagiko: To know about themselves. Nagiko: Nipples like bone buttons. An instep like a half open book. A navel like the inside of a shell. A belly like an upturned saucer. A penis like a sea slug or a pickled cucumber. Nagiko: His writing - in so many languages - made me a sign-post pointing east, west, north and south. I had shoes in German, stockings in French, gloves in Hebrew, a hat with a veil in Italian. He only kept me naked where I was most accustomed to wearing clothes. Jerome: I could learn new languages to make you understood all over the world. Nagiko: I am certain that there are two things in life which are dependable: the delights of the flesh and the delights of literature. I have had the good fortune to enjoy them both equally. Nagiko: Where is a book before it is born? Who are a book's parents? Does a book need two parents - a mother and a father? Can a book be born inside another book? Where is the parent book of books? How old does a book have to be before it can give birth? Nagiko: How can I get pleasure writing on you? You have to write on me. Jerome: Go on. Use my body like the pages of a book. Of your book. |
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