The Pillow Book (1996)

with nudity from Ewan McGregor

In this movie...

In this movie, there is a lot of nudity, including from Ewan McGregor who spends most of the movie completely naked. When being casted for the role, he was asked "Look, you're going to be completely naked, and we need to be able to shoot anything.". Ewan answered "Thank's okay". Then they asked "Would you simulate sex with a woman?". Ewan said "Yeah, no problem." Then they asked "Would you simulate sex with a man?. Ewan said "Yeah, that's okay.". He got the role!

Movie information

  • Category: Straight , Gay
  • Duration: 126 min
  • Released in: 1996
  • Country: France
  • Genres: Drama
  • IMDB score: 6.5
  • IMDB description: 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.
  • Naked actors:
    Ewan McGregor