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Pillow book (Motion picture)

As a young girl, Nagiko became her father's canvas each year on her birthday, as he'd paint on her face and neck the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy. As a young woman, she finds pleasure in continuing the practice with a succession of lovers, particularly a bisexual translator who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of revenge on the publisher who once exploited her beloved father's work.

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  • "Zhen bian jin shu"
  • "O Livro de Cabeceira"@en
  • "Libro de cabecera"
  • "Escrito en el cuerpo"@en
  • "I racconti del cuscino"@en
  • "Escrito en la piel"@en
  • "Pîtâ Gurînawei no Makuranosoushi"@en
  • "Bettlektüre"@en
  • "Peter Greenaway"
  • "Notes de chevet"
  • "Notes de chevet"@en

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  • "Fiction. Drame psychologique. Quand Nagiko était jeune, son père lui traçait ses voeux d'anniversaire sur son visage. Devenue adulte, elle désire poursuivre l'oeuvre calligraphique, mais sur le corps d'hommes de passage. À Hong Kong, elle rencontre et devient amoureuse d'un anglais, dont elle couvre entièrement le corps de ses écrits. Celui-ci se présente ainsi à un éditeur gai dont il devient l'amant. Avec Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida, Hideko Yoshida, Judy Ongg."
  • "A young woman finds a lover with whom she can carry on a strange erotic ritual."
  • "Nagiko flees an unhappy marriage in Japan to work as a model in Hong Kong. She holds childhood memories of the annual ritual of her calligrapher father painting traditional birthday greetings on her face. This love of calligraphy is carried into her personal life."
  • "A modern-day Japanese woman's life experiences are inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan and her father's relationship with his publisher."
  • ""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 women and meets a man who offers his body to her both as a blank page to write upon and as a weapon of revenge ..."--Blurb."
  • "Inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan, which were the catalyst for a modern-day Japanese woman's life experiences."
  • "A modern-day Japanese woman's life experiences are inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon, a female courtier who lived during the Heian Dynasty in 10th century Japan, and her father's relationship with his publisher."
  • "As a young girl, Nagiko became her father's canvas each year on her birthday, as he'd paint on her face and neck the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy. As a young woman, she finds pleasure in continuing the practice with a succession of lovers, particularly a bisexual translator who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of revenge on the publisher who once exploited her beloved father's work."@en
  • "Nagiko flees an unhappy marriage in Japan to work as a model in Hong Kong. She holds childhood memories of the annual ritual of her calligrapher father painting traditional birthday greetings on her face. This love of calligraphy is carried into her sexual life."
  • "Een Japanse jonge vrouw, geïnspireerd door het duizend jaar oude klassieke werk The pillow book, laat zich calligraferen en calligrafeert zelf haar minnaars als uiting van erotiek."
  • "La fille dun calligraphe célèbre, qui autrefois lui avait souhaité son anniversaire en lui calligraphiant ses voeux sur le visage, reprend le flambeau et écrit des poèmes sur le corps de son amant, Jérome. Devenu jaloux, Jérome met en scène un faux suicide qui aboutit à sa mort. La jeune femme pleure la mort de son amant et écrit un poème érotique sur son corps avant de lenterrer. Léditeur exhume le corps de Jérome et fait de sa peau un précieux livre de chevet Culture littéraire, érotisme et mort, un creuset qu'affectionne particulièrement Greenaway... Une oeuvre forte et originale..."
  • "En Kyoto, en los años 70, un anciano calígrafo escribe con gran delicadeza una felicitación en la cara de su hija el día de su cumpleaños. Cuando se hace mayor, Nagiko recuerda emocionada aquel regalo, y busca al amante-calígrafo ideal que utilice todo su cuerpo como una hoja en blanco"@es
  • "En Kyoto, en los años 70, un anciano calígrafo escribe con gran delicadeza una felicitación en la cara de su hija el día de su cumpleaños. Cuando se hace mayor, Nagiko recuerda emocionada aquel regalo, y busca al amante-calígrafo ideal que utilice todo su cuerpo como una hoja en blanco"
  • ""Pic revolves around the erotic adventures of a young Japanese woman, Nagiko. As a child growing up in Kyoto, Nagiko's birthdays are celebrated in a highly ritualized manner as her father, an impoverished writer and expert calligrapher, writes a sensuous birthday greeting on her face with brush and ink while her aunt reads passages from the Shonagon classic. At the age of 18, the ritual ceases and the reluctant Nagiko is persuaded to marry the nephew of her father's gay publisher. The frustrated young woman becomes obsessed with following in the footsteps of Shonagon, and when her husband burns her diaries, she leaves him and flees to Hong Kong. There she becomes a successful fashion model and begins searching out a series of lovers who are also calligraghers; in addition to sex, she derives pleasures from the texts that are written on her body. None of these lover-calligraphers really satisfies her, however, until she meets an Englishman, Jerome, with whom she falls in love. Jerome persuades her that she should write on his body rather than vice versa, and a period of erotic fulfillment is achieved. Jerome presents his body, with Nagiko's elaborate writing all over it, to her father's old publisher, who is delighted and soon becomes Jerome's lover. When Nagiko discovers this, her jealousy triggers tragic events"--Variety review, May 20, 1996."@en
  • "Remembering a treasured childhood event, Nagiko searches for an ideal calligrapher-lover who will use her body as his personal paper. She meets an English translator who convinces her that she should be the pen and not the paper and use his body to write her manuscripts."@en
  • "Homage to the 10th century story by Sei Shonagon, entitled Makura no soshi, on which the film is loosely based."@en
  • "A young woman finds a lover with whom she can carry on a strange erotic ritual involving calligraphy."
  • "SUMMARY: "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 melange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images." IMDB"
  • "La fille d'un calligraphe célèbre, qui autrefois lui avait souhaité son anniversaire en lui calligraphiant ses voeux sur le visage, reprend le flambeau et écrit des poèmes sur le corps de son amant, Jérôme. Devenu jaloux, Jérôme met en scène un faux suicide qui aboutit à sa mort. La jeune femme pleure la mort de son amant et écrit un poème érotique sur son corps avant de l'enterrer. L'éditeur exhume le corps de Jérôme et fait de sa peau un précieux livre de chevet."
  • "Fiction. Drame psychologique. Quand Nagiko était jeune, son père lui traçait ses voeux d'anniversaire sur son visage. Devenue adulte, elle désire poursuivre l'oeuvre calligraphique, mais sur le corps d'hommes de passage. À Hong Kong, elle rencontre et devient amoureuse d'un anglais, dont elle couvre entièrement le corps de ses écrits. Celui-ci se présente ainsi à un éditeur gai dont il devient l'amant. Avec Vivian Wu, Ken Ogata, Yoshi Oida, Hideko Yoshida, Ewan McGregor, Judy Ongg."
  • "Une jeune femme, obsédée par des impressions de son enfance, calligraphie ses écrits sur les corps d'hommes de passage."
  • "Quand Nagiko était jeune, son père lui traçait ses voeux d'anniversaire sur son visage. Devenue adulte, elle désire poursuivre l'oeuvre calligraphique, mais sur le corps d'hommes de passage. À Hong Kong, elle rencontre et devient amoureuse d'un anglais, dont elle couvre entièrement le corps de ses écrits. Celui-ci se présente ainsi à un éditeur gai dont il devient l'amant. Avec Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Ken Ogata, Yoslii Oida."
  • "In the setting of Kyoto, Japan in the 1970's, a calligrapher delicately writes a birthday greeting on his daughter's face. When she grows up, she remembers this incident with affection and begins a search for an ideal calligrapher-lover who will use her whole body as his personal paper."
  • "Three experiences make an indelible impression on a young girl's childhood: fer 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."@en

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  • "Film fabularny"
  • "Erotica"
  • "Erotica"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Feature films"@en
  • "Drama romántico cinematográfico"@es
  • "Drama romántico cinematográfico"
  • "DVD"
  • "fiction dramatique (fiction)"
  • "Motion pictures"
  • "Films dramatiques"
  • "Motion pictures, Japanese"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Fiction films"@en
  • "Erotic films"
  • "French films"
  • "French films"@en
  • "Film obyczajowy"
  • "Romance"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
  • "Video recordings for the hearing impaired"@en
  • "Drames"
  • "British films"
  • "British films"@en
  • "Melodramat filmowy"
  • "Film angielski"
  • "Drama"
  • "Drama"@en
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Dokumenty audiowizualne"
  • "Foreign films"
  • "Features"
  • "Features"@en
  • "engelske film"
  • "Videodiscos DVD"
  • "Dutch films"
  • "Dutch films"@en

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  • "The Pillowbook"
  • "Pillow book (Motion picture)"
  • "Pillow book (Motion picture)"@en
  • "The Pillow book"
  • "Pillow book"@en
  • "Pillow book"@es
  • "Pillow book"
  • "The pillow book (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)"
  • "The pillow book"@es
  • "The pillow book"
  • "The pillow book"@en
  • "The Pillow Book"

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