Tokyo Decadence Movie Review 1991

Ai is a high-paid prostitute working in Tokyo for an agency that specializes in sado-masochism. Film follows her various sexual escapades in humiliating detail as well as her drug-addled search for a client Ai thinks she's in love with. Since Ai remains a cipher, the film also remains unfocused except for its creepy and explicit sex scenes. Adaptation of director Murakami's novel "Topaz." In Japanese with English subtitles or dubbed.

Distribution

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Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 92 minutes.
Originally from Japanese.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Oldest Profession, Sexcapades, Japan, Tokyo

Screenplay

Ryu Murakami

Cast

Miho Nikaido, Tenmei Kano, Yayoi Kusama, Sayoko Amano

Cinematography

Tadashi Aoki

Director

Ryu Murakami

Music

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Producer

Yoshitaka Suzuki, Tadanobu Hirao, Yosuke Nagata, Northern Arts Entertainment