Tokyo Decadence

Name: Tokyo Decadence
Genre: Drama
Released: April 30, 1993
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 48
Cast: Chie Sema, Hiroshi Mikami, Kan Mikami, Magayasu Ishihara, Masahiko Shimada

1993

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Northern Arts Entertainment | Release Date: April 30, 1993 | NC-17

Starring: Chie Sema, Hiroshi Mikami, Kan Mikami, Magayasu Ishihara, Masahiko Shimada, Miho Nikaido, Nami Nosaki, Sayoko Amano, Tenmei Kano, Yayoi Kusama

Summary: A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yakuza types. She's unhappy about her work, and is apparently trying to find some sort of appeasement for the fact that her lover has married.

Director: Ryû Murakami

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NC-17

Runtime: 135 min

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Kevin Thomas

Tokyo Decadence is likely to stay with you long after the theater lights come up. Read full review

Marc Savlov

Whether or not Murakami intended this rambling, erotic nightmare as a metaphor for modern-day Japan is a question I'm not going to get into here, but the fact remains, Tokyo Decadence is a powerful, disturbing film, teeming with episodes of rampant passion, abuse, and beauty. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Tokyo Decadence will appeal to only a select few. The movie is rated NC-17 for a reason -- it doesn't pull any punches, and there's virtually nothing it won't risk putting on screen. Those who take a chance on this film may be shocked by what it offers, but, regardless of their opinion of the story, the overall experience won't soon be forgotten. Read full review

Michael Thomson

Almost entirely free of context or comment, it’s like watching a grim, sordid and in fact rather dull porno flick, where the director documents the sexual demands of a number of ‘imaginative’ businessmen and then – unlike the prostitute herself – does nothing with them. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Peter Preston

This is not, by any standard, entertainment. It is, from time to time, almost too agonising to watch: but at least, in its unrelenting, occasionally powerful way, it shows how sex and violence can sometimes, in their capacity for degradation, be brothers under the crawly skin. Read full review

John Hartl

Tokyo Decadence includes what may be the only near-death experience ever played for laughs in a movie. [15 Oct 1993, p.D26]

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Lacking the intellectual, emotional and philosophical rigours of, say, a film by Oshima, this brazenly voyeuristic nonsense is finally as incoherent and unilluminating as it's hackneyed. Read full review

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