Editing Tokyo Decadence (section)

{{Short description|1992 film}}
{{Infobox film| name = Tokyo Decadence
  | image = Tokyo Decadence DVD.jpg
  | caption = ''Tokyo Decadence'' DVD cover
  | director = [[Ryū Murakami]] 
  | producer = [[Chosei Funahara]]
  | based_on = ''Topaz'' by Ryū Murakami
  | writer =
  | starring =
  | music = [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]
  | cinematography =青木正 (Tadashi Aoki)
  | editing =
  | distributor = Cinema Epoch
  | released = {{Film date|1992|01|6|df=yes}}
  | runtime = 
  | language = Japanese
  | budget = 
  | gross = $277,845<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tokyodecadence.htm|title=Tokyo Decadence|access-date=2020-02-19|archive-date=2018-07-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180708122812/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=tokyodecadence.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>
  }}

{{Nihongo|'''''Tokyo Decadence'''''|トパーズ|Topāzu}} is a 1992 [[Japan]]ese [[pink film]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Tokyo Decadence 1991|newspaper=Bfi |publisher=BFI.org|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c06d277|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190511011653/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7c06d277|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 11, 2019|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Modern East Asian Literature|year=2003|via=[[Internet Archive]]|publisher=Columbia University Press|url=https://archive.org/details/columbiacompanio00bada|url-access=registration|page=[https://archive.org/details/columbiacompanio00bada/page/233 233]|isbn=9780231113144|quote=tokyo decadence 1991.|access-date=May 10, 2019}}</ref> This erotic film was directed by [[Ryū Murakami]] (村上 龍) with music by [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]] (坂本 龍一 ). The film was shot and completed during 1991 and released in the start of 1992. It stars [[:ja:二階堂美穂|Miho Nikaido]] (二階堂 美穂) and is also referred to as '''''Topaz,'''''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sex Dreams of Topaz |url=https://paragraphfilmreviews.com/tag/sex-dreams-of-topaz/ |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=Paragraph Film Reviews |language=en}}</ref> that title being both the translation of the original Japanese title and that of the Murakami story it is an adaptation of.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SensCritique |title=Topaze et autres nouvelles Ryû Murakami |url=https://www.senscritique.com/livre/topaze_et_autres_nouvelles/252081 |access-date=2024-12-23 |website=SensCritique |language=fr}}</ref> Because of the cruel and graphic nature of this film, it has been banned in several countries such as [[Australia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.refused-classification.com/censorship/films/t-2.html|title=Film Censorship: T #2|publisher=Refused-Classification.com|access-date=2013-04-29|archive-date=2012-05-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120509140922/http://www.refused-classification.com/censorship/films/t-2.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and [[South Korea]].<ref>[http://www.screendaily.com/south-korea-damns-breillats-hell/4018512.article South Korea damns Breillat's Hell] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402132949/http://www.screendaily.com/south-korea-damns-breillats-hell/4018512.article |date=2015-04-02 }} 11 May 2004 [[ScreenDaily.com]]</ref> [[Shimada Masahiko]] (島田 雅彦) also makes an appearance in this film. The story follows {{Nihongo|Ai|愛||lit. "love"}}, the submissive and lovesick prostitute who goes about her trade with misery and is being abused by hedonists and criminals while trying to find some sort of appeasement away from the fact that her lover is currently married.