Close Up
Jerome and Nagiko are seen in close-ups as they drink wine having dinner. The intimacy of the close-up in this scene where they discuss a plan to get Nagiko's words to the publisher creates a link between the characters. They share a connection at a level beneath the surface and there are deeper things within them that they have yet to reveal to one another.
Writing
Nagiko is seen being written upon as she reads. The imagery is soft and sensual and evokes the connection Nagiko has between carnal pleasrue and the calligraphy she desires to have written upon her body.
Separated
Nagiko and Jerome have dinner and discuss how he will bring her words to the publisher by her writing them upon his body. We see them separated in the frame by double doors during their meal. Once they agree on a course of action, the double doors are opened and they are at once together in the frame and in their thinking.
Bonsai
We watch as Nagiko buries Jerome's pillow book made of his skin beneath a bonsai tree. The imagery shows us that she is planting her former lover in peace in order to move forward in her life and bury the part of herself that she used to get her revenge upon the publisher who destroyed her father's life.
