Release Date
September 14, 2007 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
February 26, 2008 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
François Girard
Writer
Michael Golding
Cast
Alfred Molina, Keira Knightley, Koji Yakusho, Mark Rendall, Michael Pitt, Sei Ashina
Studio
Running Time
110 minutes
MPA Rating
Rated R for sexuality and nudity
What is Silk about?
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... Full synopsis »
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