
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on Alessandro Baricco&s novel Silk is the story of a silkworm smuggler & his adventures in Japan ; ; When the pebrine epidemic
- the spotted silkworm disease that ravaged eggs from European hatcheries in the 1860&s
- spreads overseas the entire European silk trade seemed doomed In order to continue his lucrative trade Baldabiou (Molina) a roguish French silk trader decides to send a young military officer Herve Joncour (Pitt) on a perilous mission to Japan Thus separating him for months on end from Helene (Knightley) his lovely & devoted schoolteacher wife Japan the island that produced the finest silk in the world for thousands of years prior to the opening of the Suez Canal was considered a dominion forbidden to foreigners quite literally the opposite end of the world It is here that Herve encounters the powerful & feared local baron Hara Jubei (Yakusho) with whom he will trade for the precious silkworm eggs & it is here in a world unlike anything that Herve has experienced before that he becomes entranced by the baron&s concubine a deeply mysterious girl of intoxicating beauty