Pillow Book

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Concerning Pillow Book and other Greenaway films there seem to exist a 
misconception. He never associates himself with some kind of realism. 
Even in his first publicly wider known film "The Draughtsman 's 
Contract", there were many historical inaccuracies, what he himself 
admitted, in a native culture. He is situated in the tradition of 
manneristic painting and some developments of surrealism. It's rather 
obvious, that Hong Kong, Japan and Chinese and Japanese Writing interests 
him as graphic possibilities of expressing himself and a pure aesthetic 
play, with no claim of telling something about this cultures.

Bodo Schoenfelder