Based on the number one international bestselling novel by Alessandro Baricco, Silk is a sweeping romantic drama about a young military officer sent on a perilous mission to Japan, separating him for months on end from his lovely, devoted schoolteacher wife. A film of painterly beauty and ravishing romance, Silk is a historically rapturous epic romance of east meets west. MPAA Rating: R TM and ǩ MMVII New Line Cinema Picturehouse Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved.