Tokyo Decadence 844335 194654160 2008-02-28T14:04:33Z 84.222.132.247 {{Infobox Film | name = Tokyo Decadence | image = Tokyo Decadence DVD.jpg | caption = ''Tokyo Decadence'' DVD cover | director = [[Ryu Murakami]] | producer = [[Chosei Funahara]] | writer = | starring = | music = [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] | cinematography = | editing = | distributor = [[Cinema Epoch]] | released = | runtime = | language = Japanese | budget = | imdb_id = 0105622 }} '''''Tokyo Decadence''''' (Topāzu) is a [[1992]] [[Japan|Japanese]] [[Cinema of Japan|film]]. The film was directed by [[Ryu Murakami]] with music by [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]. The film stars [[Miho Nikaido]] and is known by two other titles, ''Topaz'' and ''Sex Dreams of Topaz''. It has been banned in [[Australia]] and [[South Korea]]. [[Shimada Masahiko]] appears in the film playing [[hentai]]. A timid Japanese college girl, Ai (愛, lit. "love"), tries to make ends meet as a light [[sadism and masochism|SM]]/[[bondage (BDSM)|bondage]] girl for hire within a world of lavishly wealthy [[Tokyo]] penthouses. The bulk of the film is comprised of four sex sequences, the first and last involving [[dildo|dildos]] and mirrors, with the S/M relationship being inverted, the middle two [[asphyxiation]] with, again, a reversal of roles. The actual story revolves around Ai's unrequited love for a married gallery artist. At the beginning of the movie Ai visits a [[fortune-teller]] who advises her to find a "pink stone" and fashion it into a ring. The fortune teller also advises Ai to avoid a gallery in the east. Ai later loses the ring, later finds it again, later goes to the artist's house, has the police called on her and has the police called off by one of the artist's neighbors whose affair with (but not love for) him has ended. The general themes of the film are the sterility and coldness of life, and the inability to make a human connection in the modern world. At least two versions of the film exist, with the shorter one edited more for pacing than for [[censorship]]. == See also == *[[Sadism and masochism in fiction]] ==External links== * {{imdb title|id=0105622|title=Tokyo Decadence}} ==Sources== * {{cite book |last=Thompson|first=Nathaniel|title=DVD Delirium: The International Guide to Weird and Wonderful Films on DVD; Volume 1 Redux|origyear=2002|year=2006|publisher=FAB Press|location=[[Godalming]], England|isbn=1-903254-39-6|pages=pp.697-698}} [[Category:Japanese films]] [[Category:1991 films]] [[Category:BDSM in films]] [[de:Tokio Dekadenz]] [[it:Tokyo_Decadence]]