Pillow Book, The  /  DVD-Video
Widescreen 1.75:1 Color (Anamorphic)  /  Production Year: 1998  /  Region 1

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Select Product View: General Info 1 Empire Review 2 Customer Comments Suggestions Used Product Box Cover Screen Shots Email a Friend Overall Rating: 2.75 out of 5, including 3 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Synopsis Three experiences make an indelible impression on a young girl's childhood: her father's tender calligraphy on her face and neck, the text of a noblewoman's sensual diary (or "pillow book"), and the discovery that her father is being blackmailed. These three images become a single obsession when the girl becomes a woman and meets a man who offers his body to her, both as a blank page to write upon and as a weapon of revenge. NOTE: This film was made using multiple aspect ratios, and despite the "formatted to fit your screen" warning, this DVD has all the correct aspect ratios preferred by Director Peter Greenaway, as the transfer to DVD was personally supervised by him. Cast & Crew Actors:  • Ewan McGregor  • Vivian Wu  • Judy Ongg  • Ken Ogata  • Hideko Yoshida  • Yoshi Oida Writers:  • Peter Greenaway Producers:  • Kees Kasander Directors:  • Peter Greenaway Product Information Features: Interactive Menus Theatrical Trailer Scene Selections Video: Widescreen 1.75:1 Color (Anamorphic) Audio: (more info) JAPANESE: Dolby Digital Surround CHINESE: Dolby Digital Surround Subtitles: English Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Production Year: 1998 Release Date: 12/15/1998 Length: 126 mins Rating: NR Packaging: Keep Case Number of Discs: 1 Disc: SS-SL Item Code: 28709 UPC Code: 043396287099 Browsei Category: Movies Genre: Romance, Art House, Drama, Erotica Studios: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Customers who bought this Title also bought 8 1/2 Women  DVD-Video Kikujiro  DVD-Video Reviews Overall Rating: 2.75 out of 5, including 3 reviews Add your comments on this Title. Empire Review PILLOW BOOK - 2.25 out of 5  (2/14/2002) PILLOW BOOK is an unusual film that works, though it is still on the bizarre side, thanks to its writer/director, Peter Greenaway. Still best known for THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1990,) an attack on Margaret Thatcher's Neo-Conservative policies and how they were wrecking Great Britain (according to him,) all of his films take the interesting twist of breaking down the borders between living people and inanimate objects. Vivian Wu is Nagiko, who is exposed to calligrap   more >> Customer Review Good Movie/Bad Transfer - 3 out of 5  (10/21/2002) It;s tragic what they do sometimes to a really enjoyable theatrical release when they "back end" it to video. What were they thinking when they butchered this to fit a television screen? This pan and scan product destroys the visual impact of what was a teriffic view.   more >> Customer Review Great movie, horrible transfer - 3 out of 5  (12/30/1999) This film is not for everyone. Many deride its sparse dialog, slow-moving plot and avant-garde touches as pure arthouse pretention. I found it a visually sumptuous and highly erotic film. Greenaway is a master of intelligent eroticism, and his more popular films (this one, PROSPERO'S BOOKS and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE &HER LOVER) seem to revolve around book imagery. Depending on your taste this film will either tantalize you or leave you completely bored. I had the pleasure of seeing thi   more >>