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Cast
- Vivian WuNagiko
- Yoshi OidaThe Publisher
- Ken OgataThe Father
- Hideko YoshidaThe Aunt / The Maid
- Ewan McGregorJerome
- Yutaka HondaHoki
- Judy OnggThe Mother
- Ken MitsuishiThe Husband
- Barbara LottJerome's Mother
- Lynne LangdonJerome's sister
Recommandations
- 89
Austin Chronicle
Greenaway and his picture-perfect cast weave so many interlacing threads into the story, and so many curious subtexts - stylistic and otherwise - that it sometimes leaves us scratching our heads in wonderment. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
The Pillow Book, starring Vivian Wu, is a seductive and elegant story. - 80
Newsweek
Greenaway uses the screen rather like the calligraphers of the story use the body so that the film becomes a kind of visual "pillow book;" a multi-layered series of inscriptions and reflections with almost hypnotic power. - 80
The New York Times
The film is best watched as a richly sensual stylistic exercise filled with audaciously beautiful imagery, captivating symmetries and brilliantly facile tricks. - 75
ReelViews
The great irony of this film, which is (at least on one level) about the power of writing, is that the words are of secondary importance to the overwhelming visual presentation. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
I can't say that I've ever entertained fantasies of writing on someone's body. But Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (Cinepix) does, at least, succeed in making it look like an erotic activity. - 50
Los Angeles Times
Despite its arresting visual style, its wave after wave of creative and hypnotic images, The Pillow Book, as its name hints, slowly but inexorably leads to sleep. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
The Pillow Book sometimes seems like three different movies, each one an eyeful but together too much of a good thing.
