The Pillow Book

140 00:41:21,347 --> 00:41:23,396 Write... 141 00:41:23,467 --> 00:41:26,454 "we met for the first time at the cafe typo." 142 00:41:26,525 --> 00:41:28,574 Write in three languages... 143 00:41:28,646 --> 00:41:31,807 Japanese, french and english. 144 00:42:15,358 --> 00:42:17,721 Waitress! 145 00:42:30,686 --> 00:42:33,570 Are we going to do more writing? 146 00:42:33,641 --> 00:42:36,142 Perhaps. 147 00:42:36,213 --> 00:42:38,993 You smell strange. 148 00:42:39,063 --> 00:42:42,121 Do you use perfume? 149 00:42:42,191 --> 00:42:44,206 And your fingers. 150 00:42:44,276 --> 00:42:46,848 What's wrong with my fingers? 151 00:42:48,517 --> 00:42:51,505 I'll give you another chance. The last one. 152 00:42:55,884 --> 00:42:59,673 Write on my breasts. A little inappropriate. 153 00:42:59,744 --> 00:43:03,078 I'll decide what's inappropriate. 154 00:43:03,149 --> 00:43:06,242 Write in yiddish. What's yiddish for "breasts"? 155 00:43:06,311 --> 00:43:09,404 If you're a writer, surely you'd write on anything? 156 00:43:43,294 --> 00:43:46,491 This is not going to work. 157 00:43:49,098 --> 00:43:51,182 You're not a writer. 158 00:43:51,252 --> 00:43:54,275 This is not writing; It's scribbling. 159 00:43:54,346 --> 00:43:56,396 Distasteful scribbling. 160 00:43:58,586 --> 00:44:01,157 Get out. 161 00:44:01,228 --> 00:44:04,842 You're not a writer; You're a scribbler. 162 00:44:04,913 --> 00:44:08,352 I've watched you with your little typewriter go click, click, clack. 163 00:44:08,423 --> 00:44:11,620 Get out. Go! 164 00:44:15,234 --> 00:44:18,189 You could show me. 165 00:44:18,258 --> 00:44:21,559 - Go on. - No. I can't. 166 00:44:21,630 --> 00:44:24,341 How can I get pleasure writing on you? 167 00:44:24,410 --> 00:44:26,773 You have to write on me. 168 00:44:26,844 --> 00:44:29,484 Go on. 169 00:44:33,030 --> 00:44:36,922 Use my body like the pages of a book. 170 00:44:36,993 --> 00:44:39,043 Of your book. 171 00:47:20,107 --> 00:47:22,921 Not a special writing instrument at all. 172 00:47:25,946 --> 00:47:27,926 I began very tentatively, 173 00:47:27,997 --> 00:47:33,071 Thinking of sei shonagon's lists of anatomical comparisons. 174 00:47:33,141 --> 00:47:35,399 The thoughts were often hers, 175 00:47:35,470 --> 00:47:38,076 But the words were entirely mine. 176 00:47:40,197 --> 00:47:44,228 For my first experiment in using flesh as paper, 177 00:47:44,298 --> 00:47:49,406 I made a deal with an englishman who was entirely ignorant of oriental languages. 178 00:47:58,305 --> 00:48:01,746 Hoki, this is where you can prove you have my interests at heart. 179 00:48:01,816 --> 00:48:04,040 Come here quickly. 180 00:48:14,572 --> 00:48:17,873 Off you go. Beautiful photographs. 181 00:48:17,943 --> 00:48:20,897 And you don't get paid because you owe me. 182 00:48:33,132 --> 00:48:36,780 This is where I begin to do the writing. 183 00:48:36,850 --> 00:48:40,708 I'm now going to be the pen, not just the paper. 184 00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:35,519 I could help you. 185 00:49:35,591 --> 00:49:37,918 I think not. 186 00:49:37,989 --> 00:49:41,497 Why not? What's wrong with me? 187 00:49:41,568 --> 00:49:45,460 Because you are from kyoto, and you're young. 188 00:49:45,530 --> 00:49:48,935 And your handwriting is illegible. 189 00:49:49,006 --> 00:49:53,905 Besides, your skin does not make a good paper. 190 00:49:53,976 --> 00:49:56,060 Watch. 191 00:50:08,852 --> 00:50:13,300 You see? In my diary, I called you "the blotter." 192 00:50:13,371 --> 00:50:15,421 Hoki the blotter. 193 00:50:22,825 --> 00:50:25,152 I could help you. 194 00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:31,340 I think not. 195 00:50:31,409 --> 00:50:33,459 Why not? 196 00:50:36,866 --> 00:50:39,472 You're none too smart with compliments. 197 00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,169 Let me try. 198 00:50:51,048 --> 00:50:53,097 Let me try. 199 00:52:04,558 --> 00:52:07,511 Hoki set off at dawn for a foreign language bookshop... 200 00:52:07,581 --> 00:52:11,647 In kowloon city in a street full of restaurants. 201 00:52:11,718 --> 00:52:14,428 He finally gave the packet to some doorman. 202 00:52:19,365 --> 00:52:22,248 "We feel that we are unable to consider... 203 00:52:22,319 --> 00:52:25,376 "publication of this material. 204 00:52:25,447 --> 00:52:28,434 It's not worth the paper it's written on." 205 00:52:36,083 --> 00:52:39,035 So they're not satisfied with the quality of the paper. 206 00:52:42,026 --> 00:52:44,597 Perhaps it's not japanese enough. 207 00:52:48,804 --> 00:52:51,097 Try writing on me. 208 00:52:59,786 --> 00:53:01,836 Seduce him. 209 00:56:11,436 --> 00:56:14,599 I met jerome in the cafe typo... 210 00:56:14,669 --> 00:56:18,317 And asked him for the services of a translator. 211 00:56:19,744 --> 00:56:22,383 He gav...