Movie
1996
The Pillow Book is a 1996 erotic drama art film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers. The film is a melding of dark modern drama with idealised Chinese and Japanese cultural themes and settings, and centres on body painting.
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In old times "art film" was euphemism for porn. In our, seemingly more enlightened, times people could very well re-embrace that euphemism if their perception of "art" in films was based on the works of Peter Greenaway. Style and themes of his films are embodiment of everything people usually associate with the word "art", but Greenaway's films are usually remembered for nudity - quantities of which an average viewe…More
