Makura no sôshi was released in the year 1996。Makura no sôshi is also called as The Pillow Book, Párnakönyv, Peter Greenaway no Makura no sôshi, Notes de chevet, Escrito en la piel, Escrito en el cuerpo, Bettlektüre, Livro de Cabeceira。

As a young girl in Japan, Nagiko's father paints characters on her face, and her aunt reads to her from "The Pillow Book", the diary of a 10th-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.

Makura no sôshi actors and actresses include Chris Bearne, Ewan McGregor, Lynne Langdon, Vivian Wu。