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| ![The Pillow Book [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CDGBBTZQL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Vivian Wu, Ewan Mcgregor, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida
Studio: Cinema Club
Category: Video
List Price: £5.99
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 8360
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 126 Minutes
EAN: 5024165707401
ASIN: B00004CUSW
Theatrical Release Date: June 6, 1997
Release Date: June 16, 2003
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Excellent Condition.
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Good if you want to see LOTS of Ewan March 25, 2004
9 out of 47 found this review helpful
The film is good but what makes it better is the amount of ewan you see
 A Finely Created Work of Art November 14, 2002
Eric Anderson (London, United Kingdom)
43 out of 47 found this review helpful
I happen to be a great admirer of the controversial Mr Greenaway. I think his direction in film is bold and produces powerful results. The Pillow Book is a great example of this talent. It is an amazing combination of his narrative technique, experimental explorations and talent for finding compelling stories. The images are beautiful, especially the shot of Vivian Wu standing in the rain covered with writing on her flesh which slowly melts away. Her character is not that complex, but the action of the story is sufficient to carry her along throughout the tale as she fights for independence and a suitable form of artistic expression. Essentially the story is about the fetishisation of books and sex. These things are enough to make a great movie in my mind. Nagiko is a girl who goes through a ritual where her father writes on her back on her birthday as he tells her of a myth. After burning her way out of a suffocating marriage, she grows up to become a radical artist writing on bodies and searching for a man who can replace her father in the birthday tradition. She meets a talented man named Jerome who she falls in love with, but is eventually sacrificed to her father's old enemy. In the course of the narrative she writes her own Pillow Book on a series of men. It culminates in a gruesome act of jealousy and revenge (a notion not foreign to Greenaway's narratives). pSome emotionally intense scenes are made particularly powerful with the screen-in-screen shots because it shows at one time the levels between thought and action, self-perception and actual action. This is a new style for Greenaway that works tremendously well in this movie because it fits so perfectly with the egotism and self-obsession of the characters involved. The movie as a whole is a powerful evocation of a great Japanese classic. I highly recommend this movie who is in the mood to watch something eccentric, visually moving and stunningly beautiful.
Fantastic DVD, but loses a lot from theatrical presentation September 14, 2000
31 out of 36 found this review helpful
This is a fantastic DVD, the sounds and picture quality are great. However, the movie contains many pictures within pictures (like windows on a computer screen) that looked fantastic on the big screen but many of these smaller pictures have been awkwardly cut off for the DVD version. It's a shame. The movie is still great and worth watching. And Greenaway outdoes himself for coming up with something even creepier than the 'buffet' scene from Thief, Cook, Wife and her Lover.
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