The Pillow Book
Vivian Wu, Yoshi Oida, Ken Ogata, Hideko Yoshida, Ewan McGregor
| released: 1995 Sep 01 | duration: 2:06:24 |
As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her mother reads to her from "The Pillow Book," the diary of a tenth 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 mélange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
At 59:29, a woman
spins a plate
in the background while the heroine and her lover make love
in the bathtub.
The entire movie may be seen here.
