The Pillow Book was released in the year 1996。The Pillow Book is also called as Párnakönyv, Peter Greenaway no Makura no sôshi, Notes de chevet, Makura no sôshi, 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.

The Pillow Book actors and actresses include Chris Bearne, Ewan McGregor, Lynne Langdon, Vivian Wu。