Silk (2007) - Movie Details

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Release Date:	September 14, 2007 (Limited)
On DVD:	February 26, 2008
Genre:	Drama, Romance
Director:	François Girard
Writer:	Michael Golding
Cast:	Alfred Molina, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Mark Rendall, Michael Pitt, Sei Ashina
Studio:	Picturehouse
Official site:	silkmovie.com
Running Time:	110 minutes
MPAA Rating:	Rated R for sexuality and nudity

Based on the beloved, best-selling novel by Alessandro Baricco, "Silk" is the story of Herve Joncour (Pitt), a 19th Century French silkworm merchant who travels to Japan and begins a clandestine and forbidden romance with a mysterious and sensual woman.

Silkworm eggs. In one's palm one could hold thousands of them. When the pébrine epidemic—the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860s—spread overseas, however, eggs from as far away as Africa...

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