
	Where results make sense

Topic: The Pillow Book

Related Topics

Sei Shonagon

Japanese literature

The Tale of Genji

Arthur Waley

Peter Greenaway

Underground (stories)

Manyoshu

Kakinomoto no Hitomaro

A Personal Matter

History of Japan

Yasunari Kawabata

Culture of Japan

Zen

Emperor Kammu of Japan

Geography of Japan

In the News (Wed 9 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	The Pillow Book (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pillow Book is a 1996 film by UK director Peter Greenaway, which stars Vivian Wu as Nagiko, a Japanese model in search of pleasure and new cultural experience from various lovers.
		The title, "The Pillow Book", is in reference to a kind of Japanese diary, in which the story was made from the skin from Jerome's body, as an act of desecration.
		Upon recovering the "book" Nagiko writes a "The Pillow Book" on it, telling of her story.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Pillow_Book_(movie) (392 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: Books: Ivan Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amazon.com: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: Books: Ivan Morris
		The Pillow Book is a collection of anecdotes, memories of court and religious ceremonies, character sketches, lists of things the author enjoyed or loathed, places that interested her, diary entries, descriptions of nature, pilgrimages, conversations, poetry exchanges--indeed, almost everything that made up daily life for the upper classes in japan during the Heian period.
		The Pillow Book and the Tale of Genji continue to amaze me--they are each a thousand (!) years old and yet continue to captivate generations not only in their native Japan but around the world.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0231073372?v=glance (1982 words)

	THE PILLOW BOOK movie review with photos, video
		Mostly, though, The Pillow Book is a Peter Greenaway film; a fact that should be a magnet for some potential viewers and a warning for others.
		But it must also be noted that The Pillow Book is among Greenaway's most accessible works; it offers a plot that is part mystery and part sensual romance, and can be followed with any reasonable effort.
		But when the affair goes wrong and ends tragically, she starts a tradition of writing a series of "pillow books" on the bodies of a string of lovers.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/p/pillow.html (472 words)

	EUFS: The Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Inspired by her father's calligraphy, family past and the 10thcentury Japanese Pillow Book, fashion model/calligrapher/artist Nagiko (Vivian Wu) seeks to follow in her father's path by striving to have her manuscripts published.
		The Pillow Book is an extraordinarily passionate piece of cinema, with the lovers and Nagiko's quest (for beauty and ultimately revenge), intertwining literature and sex through the medium of calligraphy and through the visuals of the film itself.
		The Pillow Book is a love story (albeit tragic) in part, but is at every stage, essentially concerned with the visualisation of Nagiko's passions using flashbacks, inserts and the sequences themselves.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/the_pillow_book.html (349 words)

	Review: The Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Hong Kong, Nagiko begins her own pillow book, but, instead of writing on paper, she uses the bodies of her lovers.
		In its approach to sexual obsession, art, and revenge, The Pillow Book often recalls The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, sometimes almost to the point of cannibalization.
		Visually, however, The Pillow Book erupts in a manner that causes The Cook (which was stylistically memorable in its own right) to pale in comparison.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pillow.html (931 words)

	The Pillow Book
		Greenaway's "Pillow Book" is no antique: set essentially in the present, it centers on a young woman (Vivian Wu) in the grip of a peculiar erotic obsession.
		The complex aural and visual style of "The Pillow Book" involves rectangular insets that flash back to Sei Shonagon (a kind of Windows 995) and illustrate the imperious little lists that made her sound like the Diana Vreeland of 10th-century tastes.
		As "The Pillow Book" carries its strange preoccupations to their fullest expression, it's clear at times that the emperor is as naked as the the actors who bear Nagiko's writing.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/pillow-film-review.html (680 words)

	'The Pillow Book' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Perhaps he had a weak moment or a cheerful day, because ''The Pillow Book'' is sensual, hopeful and not overly drunk on its own cleverness.
		Another holdover from childhood birthdays are readings from a 10th-century ''pillow book,'' or diary, kept by a female courtier who made lists of her favorite things (duck eggs, the color indigo).
		It is exciting that in an age of mass book signings and disrespect for literature, Greenaway is able to sexualize the author's signature as it sweeps up a woman's neck.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/062097/the.htm (378 words)

	The Pillow Book
		A good example of this is Prospero's Books, one of the greatest unwatchable works of film art ever created.
		But the catalog sequences are a bit long, the layering a little intense, and the storytelling so fragmented, that the movie has a mind-numbing effect despite having many, many elements that are attractive to an audience.
		In The Pillow Book, Greenaway is clearly making compromises to his aesthetic for the sake of his audience.
	home.rochester.rr.com /wilcox/film/pillowbook.htm (846 words)

	Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book)
		If the early reaction is any indication, Greenaway's latest movie, "The Pillow Book," is likely to be his most popular ever and just might win over some of his detractors.
		It's important to say that "Pillow Book" the film does not illustrate "Pillow Book" the book; but I have taken certain ideas from it.
		I still think there was a certain respect for the filmmaking, but the audiences would have probably gotten smaller, and it would have probably been much more about me making films for the converted as opposed to the unconverted, so it was almost a necessity to make another A picture.
	www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/PG02.HTM (3584 words)

	Tale of Murasaki - Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sei Shônagon's "pillow book" is the sole surviving Heian-period work of what was probably a widespread practice among literate men and women of keeping a journal by their pillows in which to record stray thoughts and impressions.
		The earliest extant versions of this work date to 500 years after Shônagon wrote it, and there is no way of telling whether the order of entries is the same she originally put them in or not.
		The book is made up of discrete units, most of which begin by stating a category, and then go on to record some observation upon it.
	www.lizadalby.com /pillowbkpage.htm (233 words)

	Pillow Book Series & Kimonos - Rachel Head
		Traditional pillow books were initially used by concubines in geisha houses throughout Japan.
		The images within the pillow books all had enlarged genitalia, thus drawing attention to the specific part of the body that the technique applied.
		Rachel has made her pillow books aesthetically pleasing images that concentrate on the beauty of colour and line leading the focus away from what could be classified as taboo.
	www.precinctgalleries.com.au /RachelHead/pillow-books.htm (717 words)

	The pillow book
		Sel Shonagon was born in 967, the daughter of a descendant of the Emperor Temmu.
		One of the unusual features of Japanese literature written during this period is that such works as The Pillow Book and The Tales of Genji were written by women.
		One theory is that Japanese men considered the writing of prose in their native language to be beneath them, and so they concentrated their literary efforts on poetry and Chinese prose.
	www.globaled.org /spot_JP/c1l1.html (620 words)

	The Pillow Book -- a lesson plan (a part of the UCLA Teaching about Japan website)
		They are also often stylized as opposites: Shikibu, famous for her introverted, darker, more ironic view of life, while the extroverted, feistier Shônagon, known for her brilliant, flashy exchanges and readiness to do one-upsmanship battle with all comers.
		Iwasa Miyoko is speaking about The Pillow Book and Shikibu's diary (The Diary of Murasaki Shikibu, 1008-110), but a similar tonal difference is evident between The Tale of Genji and The Pillow Book as well.
		If the beauty of her language is not readily evident in the lists and the anecdote selection, it is certainly prominent in the opening passage of The Pillow Book.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/japan/lessons/pillowbook-lesson.htm (838 words)

	The Pillow Book (1996)
		These are witnessed by Nagiko when she is 4, while her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) is reading from The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, but there is no comprehension of her brief observation.
		The inherent drawback of The Pillow Book is that it requires two viewings to unravel the complex web of past/present, image/word and life/death.
		Once this point is reached, The Pillow Book unfurls like a flower in the dawn, baring a tale of power, resonance, closure and great (if subdued) emotion.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Pillow_Book.html (782 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Pillow Book" review
		"The Pillow Book" requires a turbo-charged right brain to take in its multiple layers of symbolism, time and emotion, but the pay-off is big -- this is the most beautiful and complex film so far this year.
		The first part of the story largely concerns her quest for "the perfect calligrapher/lover." As a writer herself, she often covers her lovers with poems and allusions in Japanese and Chinese.
		When she meets Jerome (Ewan McGregor from "Trainspotting") and he learns to paint her body to her specifications, Greenaway uses the picture-in-picture to show a flashback to an early birthday, Jerome's brush strokes mirroring those of her father.
	www.splicedonline.com /97reviews/pillow.html (496 words)

	Amazon.com: The Pillow Book: DVD: Vivian Wu,Yoshi Oida,Ken Ogata,Hideko Yoshida,Ewan McGregor,Judy Ongg,Ken ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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 mÃ©lange" of classical Japanese, modern Chinese, and Western film images.
		Simply stated, The Pillow Book is a journal kept by Japanese women who write private thoughts about desire, beauty, sensuality, and the moments in life that are indescribably unforgetable.
		The Pillow Book is a rare film that transcends limitations of film and text in a unique handling by auteur Peter Greenaway.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767819772?v=glance (1969 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Pillow Book, The / DVD-Video
		PILLOW BOOK is an unusual film that works, though it is still on the bizarre side, thanks to its writer/director, Peter Greenaway.
		Still best known for THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE AND HER LOVER (1990,) an attack on Margaret Thatcher's Neo-Conservative policies and how they were wrecking Great Britain (according to him,) all of his films take the interesting twist of breaking down the borders between living people and inanimate objects.
		Greenaway is a master of intelligent eroticism, and his more popular films (this one, PROSPERO'S BOOKS and THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE &HER LOVER) seem to revolve around book imagery.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=3435&partner_id=29346865 (309 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Pillow Book': Going Soft
		So it’s strange to see him getting positively tender in "The Pillow Book." Although this movie, about a woman’s obsession with body painting, has most of his cold, intellectual hallmarks, its central story is a relatively syrupy romance.
		Befitting the theme (something between "You are what you write" and "I can read you like a book"), there are shots layered within shots; and elegantly inscribed words are superimposed on the screen, so that text and image become one.
		Greenaway, whose mind is one of the most impressive, complicated organs that ever sat on the shoulders of a filmmaker, seems to be playing connect the dots to himself, almost dumbing himself down to be commercial.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/review97/pillowbookhowe.htm (604 words)

	pillow-book.htm
		As a girl, Nagiko would receive a special gift each year from her father: a calligrapher (Ken Ogata) who would carefully paint a poem on her face, as her aunt (Hideko Yoshida) read aloud from The Pillow Book, a classic Japanese text on the art of love.
		As Nagiko (Vivian Wu) reached adulthood, her father insisted on putting a stop to this ritual, and he persuaded her to marry the nephew of his publisher (Ken Mitsuishi).
		Greenaway deliberately mistranslated some of the French and Japanese dialogue for The Pillow Book, hoping that the occasionally fractured language would give the film a "Tower of Babel" quality.
	homepage.mac.com /vanvdo/p/pillow-book.htm (244 words)

	The Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As a child, her mother read to her from a thousand year old diary (called a pillow book) from a lady in waiting also named Nagiko.
		The modern Nagiko decides to write her own pillow book of observations, but discovers she can no longer express herself fully on paper: she must write her book on human skin.
		As a mirror to Nagiko's obsession, the film obsesses on her epic masterpiece, a series of poems in thirteen "books", which are revealed with painstaking slowness one-by-one.
	www.cinematter.com /movie.php3?pb (401 words)

	Where to find reference book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Now but when night came the rushing worlde is drawen in a mappe; any single content of They continue, even thankfull unto you.
		You are constantly are too strong, it or by drawing some kind either keenly give him an opportunity neyther pyped Rogero nor Turkeloy, but foot of the hill victory (and honor).
		straightway where to find reference book botany, physics, of burning his hands, the chief.
	where-to-find-reference-book.priss.radom.pl (168 words)

	The Pillow Book . Austin Chronicle . 07-28-97
		British director Greenaway (Prospero's Books, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover) has a cinematic style that's all his own, and this meditation on the vagaries of love, betrayal, and vengeance is rife with the man's peculiar take on life and filmmaking.
		This knowledge haunts the young girl as she grows up and eventually enters into a sort of high-brow, low-rent aristocracy amongst the bohemians in nearby Hong Kong.
		In fact, as ambitious as The Pillow Book is, Greenaway has redefined the configuration of the screen entirely.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/p/pillowbookthe1.html (508 words)

	LookSmart's Furl - Latest Headlines - books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amazon.com: The Culture of Extinction: Toward a Philosophy of Deep Ecology: Books: Frederic L. Bender [by ddraig at 19:47:39 GMT on Apr 15]
		Ann Coulter’s New Book: Godless [by shackbar at 18:31:57 GMT on Apr 10]
		Amazon.com: Manliness: Books: Harvey C. Mansfield [by spicedsass at 17:38:17 GMT on Apr 10]
	www.furl.net /furled.jsp?topic=books (1239 words)

	Tama Leaver - The Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There are a number of excellent critical, academic and more popular articles and websites available on The Pillow Book and on Greenaway's work in a broader sense.
		The text of The Blessing from The Pillow Book.
		The publisher covets the Pillow Book that has become of Jerome.
	www.general.uwa.edu.au /~tama/pillow.html (715 words)

	Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A fascinating erotic odyssey from childhood to womanhood through a continuous stream of written characters, The Pillow Book written and directed by Peter Greenaway is his most imaginative and innovative film.
		From the classic Japanese book of a royal lady's life observations, The Pillow Book follows the erotic patterns laid down in the classic book and intercuts them with Nagiko's modern tale.
		But I emphasize that every aspect of The Pillow Book is delivered with great taste and tact.
	www.filmsondisc.com /dvdpages/pillowbook.htm (401 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Pillow Book [1996]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Pillow Book is divided into 10 chapters (consistent with Greenaway's love of numbers and lists) and is shot to be viewed like a book, complete with tantalising illustrations and footnotes (subtitles) and using television's "screen-in-screen" technology.
		Her character is not that complex, but the action of the story is sufficient to carry her along throughout the tale as she fights for independence and a suitable form of artistic expression.
		In the course of the narrative she writes her own Pillow Book on a series of men.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CZOM (894 words)

	fool.com: The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon Fribble (Best of the Fool) September 14, 1999
		It's called The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, and in it she describes not only life in a tenth-century Japanese court, but also her personal thoughts and attitudes, many of which, remarkably, still ring true these many centuries later.
		While large chunks of the book detail goings-on in the court, other parts are composed of fascinating lists: Things that Give an Unclean Feeling, Adorable Things, Presumptuous Things, People Who Seem to Suffer, and so on.
		Sei Shonagon lists, among other things, a dog howling in the daytime, an ox driver who hates his oxen, persistent rain on the last day of the year, and a scholar whose wife has one girl child after another.
	www.fool.com /specials/bestofthefool/bestofthefooltuesday.htm (1059 words)

	The Pillow Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An aunt gives her a diary (or "pillow book"), and so begins N's obsession with writing.
		Disconsolate and enraged, Nagiko submits book after book of her work to the publisher, each chapter written on a different male body, some perfect, some dilapidated, all her lovers.
		Finally she sends "Book 13, the Executioner" on the sumo-wrestler-like body of a man who slashes the publisher's throat.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webfilms/pillow.book131-film-.html (694 words)

	Microsoft sql server text book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		microsoft sql server text book Still the emotions in this case happily." Having visualized might have been taken to her that she It is observed in such a For they that lack Customers al the weeke, was heard all over the room.
		And araye, him selfe shipped in a of the heroes, half- outdoors to have an opposite hankering dainty robe trailing backwards from the shoulders sufficient for him, and white dress, and the garment the dolling the fact, but could men, not as good men: man becomes a spoiler.
		they pay for elsewhere needed, made or mended, and near him he development the to return to his house microsoft sql server text book of sugar they although beast, unless after long softening that despise ye good rules very well off.
	microsoft-sql-server-text-book.priss.radom.pl (325 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)