Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Silk / Picturehouse presents in association with Odeon Films [and five others] ; produced by Niv Fichman, Nadine Luque, Domenico Procacci, Sonoko Sakai ; screenplay by François Girard, Michael Golding ; directed by Franç̧̧̧̧ois Girard.

Publisher, Date:

[Burbank, CA] : Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, [2017]

Description:

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Herve Joncour is a married silkworm smuggler in 19th century France. He travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo after his original shipment was destroyed. While in Japan, he spots a beautiful Japanese woman who is the concubine of a local baron. He immediately becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect something is going on with her husband.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for sexuality and nudity.

Subjects:

Silkworms -- Japan -- Drama.

Smugglers -- France -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Japan -- Drama.

Communication and culture -- Drama.

Concubinage -- Japan -- Drama.

Japan -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Romance films.