A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.A woman with a body-writing fetish seeks to find a combined lover and calligrapher.
- Awards
- 5 wins & 3 nominations
Lynne Langdon
- Jerome's sister
- (as Lynne Frances Wachendorfer)
Ham Chau Luong
- Calligrapher
- (as Ham Cham Luong)
- Director
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- TriviaEwan McGregor was uncomfortable about his parents watching the film, as he spends much of it being in the nude. His father took it well, and after seeing the film, responded to his son, via fax: "I'm glad you inherited one of my greatest attributes."
- GoofsNagiko says early on that her mother taught her Mandarin. Later, she says that she went to Hong Kong to improve the Chinese her mother taught her. However, the majority of people in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, not Mandarin.
- SoundtracksOffering to the Saviour Gompo
Performed by Buddhist Lamas & Monks of the Four Great Orders
Courtesy of Lyrichord Disks New York
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Like many of Peter Greenaway's movies, Pillow Book features extensive nudity. However, while the plot development is well worked out, the cast is competent, and Greenaway shows off a dazzling array of cinematic techniques, he always seems to approach his material too intellectually to really engage the viewer's emotions. I cannot know his intentions, but my impression is that he regards his scripts as more akin to a complex mathematical puzzle to be worked out than a story about real people with human feelings, leaving the movie worth watching but curiously cool and clinical rather than passionately erotic.
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- Nov 17, 2003
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- Escrito en la piel
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- Gross US & Canada
- $2,372,744
- Gross worldwide
- $2,372,744
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