It co-stars Ewan McGregor as Jerome, an English translator who becomes Nagiko's favourite lover. Greenway likewise wrote a screenplay, additionally to directing.

Plot

The Japanese born model around Hong Kong, Nagiko (Wu) seeks the lover world health organization could match her want for sensual pleasure sustaining her admiration for poetry and calligraphy. A roots of this obsession lie around her youth, once her father (Ken Ogata) would write characters of good fortune in her face. Inside an Englishman, Jerome (McGregor), she finds the locate whom she potty part her physical & her poetic passion, utilizing both more's system when tablets for their art.

Fallowing Nagiko rejects him, Jerome sinks into depression, & kills himself. His person is purloined, by enemies of Nagiko's father. Nagiko becomes overwrought & tries to overturn a coercive influences which got manufactured her reject happiness sustaining Jerome. She hatches an elaborate & original project to have a bodies of the Englishman & her more (would exist as) lovers to exact retaliation upon her father's publisher, world health organization dishonoured her father by having demands of homosexual favours inside exchange for publication.

A title, "The Pillow Book" is around information to a sort of japanese diary, which in the story was mass produced from either either the skin from Jerome's system, as an work of sacrilege. Upon recovering a "book" Nagiko writes the "pillow book" on it, telling of her story. She is revealed to keep close at hand been pregnant by using Jerome's little one, & is shown in a epilogue reading to it kid from either the book.