Tokyo Decadence [1991] [DVD] | ![Tokyo Decadence [1991] [DVD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517yMUKu2bL._SL160_.jpg) | Actor: Miho Nikaido; Sayoko Amano; Tenmei Kano
Studio: Arrow Films
Category: DVD
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 6920
Format: PAL
Languages: English (Unknown), Japanese (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5027035004716
ASIN: B000N6U0XI
Release Date: June 11, 2007
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 art versus closed minds June 26, 2010
Kiwi Don (Belfast)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Ryu Murakami has written several books that I have found very useful in trying to understand the mental focus of the 9-5 type individual in a strongly regimented society like Japan,and by extension,my own..(Western..I call no country home..Born NZ,off th'rails UK,other things here + there..))The thing about Tokyo Decadence,is that the director has NOT pandered to the average 'porn' watcher's expectations..That's not what the book's about nor is it what the film's about.I was taken in for the 1st 45 minutes or so,by the straight forward depiction of the 'heroine's job,as she switches herself off in order to 'get the job done'.All well and good,and I would have thought 'yeah,life study,one persons ways of copimg.' But the 2nd half of the film changes pace so noticeably that it elevates the film to an existentialist view of where we all stand in rtelation to the society around us.Where Takashi Miike used Murakami's work to show inability to cope with the degradation of life(Audition),here there is NO 'finish',or coup de grace..life just goes on..as does the viewer's after the film ends.
Anyone who buys this film expecting 'porn' is just as blind as anyone who find's themself offended by the deadpan handling of the subject matter.
A perfectly made window into a short space of another's life. Bravo.
This is amazing April 27, 2010
Vermilion Sands (Silkstone, Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is an amazing vision of life among outcasts, prostitutes and the mentally ill against a straitlaced Japanese background. Anyone who has read Ryu Murakami's novels, like Coin Locked Babies and Pierced, will experience a deep satisfaction with this, his only film. Occasionally completely insane, mostly a very beautiful and measured and even haunting character study of a call girl and her daily grind. Great music by Sakamoto, and I often thought of the film AUDITION, which is based on one of his book. This movie is just as beautiful, and just as anto-socially disturbing.
 Let's be honest, it's a dressed up sex film April 21, 2010
DB (London)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
The plot, what there is of it, involves Ai the heroine (if that's the appropriate term in this case), stumbing from one humiliation to the next. Not just in her sexual encounters, but in a drug fuelled, drawn out episode. There is no mention of why she is an s&m hooker, or why she loves the now married artist, does it really matter? Apparently not. Despite the blurb and it's pretensions, this is hardly a deep, thought provoking experience.
It does however have some stylish direction, and moments that will live with you forever, so is at least worth a look at this price. Oh and don't forget, you can always justify it's inclusion in your collection by claiming it's just a commentary on late 20th century Japan.
Sex Power March 18, 2010
Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles (London)
Let's put the drinks on the table and set the bar. Anything crawling out of Hollywood with the obligatory happy ending bonhomie is one star.
Tokyo Decadence is a film about Japanese sex. Anyone traveling to Ropungi, Shinjuku or Shubiya will have a twinge of recognition. S.e.x film? Of course it is, is there something wrong? Even p.orn is a reflection of the zeitgeist, those who want to dismiss sex as tawdry perhaps need to seek other forms of comfort.
To the unwary Japan appears ordered, an archetypal Durkheimian sanitised society. Camouflage, anymore than the USA being thoroughly Christian and free or the English polite, well spoken and good at cricket. Under the surface sex reeks its open pore with fetishisation traveling the bullet train to the xtreme. This film straddles both critique and endorsment of the fetishistic view.
Flushing the toilet twice, coprophilia club performances, no panties restaurants, groping hands of the underground cab with compressed bodies forced into shapes twister could never imagine; all traverse the society. The mass ranks of teen sex at Shinjuku waiting for sugar daddy to liberate them from the tedium of family life for a fee and the open arms embrace of porn embalmed in Araki's rope bondage. A Jungian shared folk memory? For all the raising of women on pedestals a hidden current of denigration works in an opposite direction. This is part of the oevre, 50% expose, 50% titilation.
Sex films usually have minimal plot, this explores the psychology of sexual power based on an unequal exchange between powerful yakuza and a "typical polite japanese woman". It is both erotic and unpleasant, a plunge into the recesses of power, pushing the viewer to review its various components. They are easily accessible on the internet.
As the eroticism fades the unsettling effect intrudes with greater clarity.
It is unremitting and likely to disturb, so it should not be viewed by those of a delicate disposition. It portrays one aspect of the Japanese society kept carefully hidden except for the initiate and those with x ray eyes. Feigning boredom must mean it is not extreme enough.
 one of the worst movies ever March 16, 2009
S. Sibanda
15 out of 30 found this review helpful
this is a movie about a prostitute named Ai.the story takes you through her experiences from one client to another. What you notice first is how quiet this movie is. With hardly any background music, it is very difficult to stir up emotions from the audience. This is supposed to be an erotic movie, that gives graphic details of peoples sexual perversions and fantasies, but it falls completely flat. Absolutely boring!!! the only thing remotely exciting in the movie is a pair of yellow shoes worn by Ai towards the end of the movie. Save your money!
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