Silk

Stunning cinematography dominates this bittersweet, 107-minute, 2007 love story about an adventurous French silkworm merchant (Michael Pitt) who leaves his beautiful wife (Keira Knightley) in 1862 when he is hired by a savvy businessman (Alfred Molina) to make a dangerous trip to Japan to buy silkworms eggs and then finds himself infatuated with the enticing, gorgeous concubine (Sei Ashina) of the local baron (Kôji Yakusho).
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