The Pillow Book

...a seductive and elegant story that combines a millennium of Japanese art and fetishes with the story of a neurotic modern woman who tells a lover: Treat me like the pages of a book.

...breathtaking moviemaking. Against all odds, it works, magically, transcendentally, perfectly. It's the shock of the new, once more, with feeling.

With its attractive cast, beguiling score and relatively straightforward narrative, this dark fable of letters and lust is one of Greenaway's most accessible works...