One of the worst movies I've ever seen

I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Film Review: "Tokyo Decadence" (1992) - Director Ryû Murakami, who also researched the decisive lifestyle of upscale Japanese prostitutes within the metropolitan city of Tokyo, creates a screen-story of an single no-talent yet cute doll looking girl falling into the hands of the most dangerous people at a skyscraping downtown area. She learns devote ways of fulfilling their customers most pervert fantasies from being no-stop under pressure to deliver a masochistic performance in lavish hotel rooms before getting penetrated in mind, body and spirit.Nevertheless the director manages to prepare actress Miho Nikaido in such specific method ways that the illusion of a treated life towards death wish from shattering princess dreams that a knight in shining armor comes along to save her from this ultimate dark version of "Alice in Wonderland", where power over the human spirit and so following action means the world in an only to be considered, necessarily imported uncut 130+ Minutes version, where Goethe's eternal feminine gets twisted into masculine degrading states of restoring balance to Planet Earth and their top managing elite.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

This review is for the 1:49 (109 minute) version of the film in Japanese with English subtitles. I believe this is the 'uncut' version. I was quite worried before watching this film about what I was letting myself in for after having read some of the reviews. I feared it might be something like some of Pasolini's films. I needn't have worried. Admittedly you might not want to show it to your maiden aunt. It's a sort of art house version of Showgirls (1995). The hallucination scenes reminds me a bit of the Mandrax infused scenes in Celine and Julie go boating (1974). So as a bit of trivia I'm guessing that is the drug Ai takes.It's supposedly a warts and all look at the life of a Tokyo prostitute, Ai, who specialises in S & M set at the time of the economic bubble. Obviously this could just be a flimsy excuse for a lot of gratuitous footage under the guise of Art. I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. It's never going to be a great film, but at least it does pass the Bechdel test. Films with a similar idea that spring to mind are Klute (1971) and Strella (2009). Both of which seemed like a more realistic portrayal, particularly Strella.I may be being a little unfair since some of it could have got lost in translation.

I've only seen the heavily edited 85-minute German version of this film, which is, above all, puzzling. With 50 minutes missing in comparison to the original Japanese version, this version contains not even two thirds of the original plot, making it and an abstract, seemingly disconnected sequence of unerotic S/M scenes and fragments of a plot showing a woman's life falling apart. There is a certain appeal in this abstractness in that it makes the main character's motivations completely enigmatic and lends a surreal touch to some of the scenes (what was that clairvoyante all about?), but my guess is that the full version must be an entirely different film, and probably a better one than what I have seen.I can't say anything about the "real" movie, but even though it shows some sort of potential, the edited version comes across as mostly pointless.

Very erotic and sick at the same time. This movie leads you down the dark allies of human sexuality. But it touches more than the loins. This is mostly because of the innocence of the Ai, the main character. Her quest for true love and happiness stands in a deep contrast with the dark nighttime of Tokyo, ridden with perverse sex and cocaine.This movie is a must for people interested in culture, sexuality and gender roles. It gives perfect examples of how power play somehow gets us excited, but mainly rests upon images of gender and sex we have invented inside our culture. It's a little Foucault, it's a little de Sade, it's just very interesting.