The Pillow Book (1996), Trailer, Vivian Wu, Ewan Mc Gregor, Yoshi Oida

Beautiful to behold and impossible to forget, THE PILLOW BOOK is auteur Peter Greenaway s eroticallycharged drama about love, death, revenge and the indelible nature of our earliest memories. Each year on her birthday, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) would became her father s canvas, as he painted the creation myth in elaborate, elegant calligraphy on her body. Years later, she continues the practice with a succession of lovers, including a bisexual translator (Ewan McGregor) who becomes a pawn in an escalating game of vengeance against her beloved father s exploitative publisher. Told in a series of chapters and featuring innovative cinematography and pictureinpicture techniques, Roger Ebert called THE PILLOW BOOK a seductive and elegant story that stands outside the Director: Peter Greenaway Writers: Sei Shonagon (book), Peter Greenaway Stars: Vivian Wu, Ewan McGregor, Yoshi Oida