Nagiko
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Jun 06, 1997 · 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.
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The Pillow Book Vivian Wu (Actor), Ewan McGregor (Actor), Peter Greenaway (Director, Writer)
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The Pillow Book is divided into 10 chapters (consistent with Greenaway's love of numbers and lists) and is shot to be viewed like a book, complete with tantalizing illustrations and footnotes (subtitles) and using television's "screen-in-screen" technology.
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As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) read aloud from The Pillow Book, a classic Japanese text on the art of love. As Nagiko (Vivian Wu) reached adulthood, her father insisted on putting a stop to this ritual ...
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- Vivian Wu, Ewan Mcgregor, Yoshi Oida
The Pillow Book is a 1996 erotic drama film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers. The film is a melding of dark modern drama with idealised Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centres on body painting.
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- 12 May 1996 (Cannes), 8 November 1996 (UK), 15 January 1997 (France), 20 October 1997 (Netherlands)
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- Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida [ja], Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg
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