Erotic movies: Topazu

21.05.2011 | By: Antonio B

A very daring, direct, sexually explicit, but not a pornographic drama about a girl who gets to know about sadomasochism through prostitution.

Some clients demand very extreme things, to which the heroine also opposes.

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Inexperienced prostitute

Miho Nikaido, who was brought to America by director Hal Hartley in the middle of the nineties, is Ai, a very reserved, depressed, somewhat weird and very unhappy young girl who starts working as a prostitute. This is obviously because she was abused by her boyfriend in a very nasty and hypocritical way at the start of the movie. He is her big love and it appears she’s trying to find him in all these men paying for her services. It’s true that the girl is reserved, inexperienced and fearful, while her clients are perverted, twisted and such that you’ll have a hard time finding them in any other movie. The girl is obviously going through some kind of therapy (shock therapy), which will prepare her for going back to her boyfriend, a fan of sadomasochism, who had to drug her to satisfy his desires. At least that’s what the fortune-teller, who basically sends her into the life of prostitution, tells her. This is, of course, meant metaphorically, but Ai takes it very literally.

Extremely perverted clients

At least that’s how I understood the shocking beginning. That’s how it seems. I see no other reason why a calm and good girl would get involved with this kind of prostitution. Well, she could be fulfilling her secret fantasies, but it’s not very likely because she doesn’t enjoy the sessions with her clients, but is in pain. They disgust her, all of them. If she is enjoying it, she’s doing it in a fake way and so that you can see she’s thinking about getting paid. How would it be any different when they tie her up, abuse her with vibrators, use her for perverted threesomes, etc. They basically treat her like a bitch – in a degrading, ugly, disgusting way, like a piece of meat you buy at the market. But our Ai still comes back for more. It’s as if she’s starting to like it, as if her orgasm with a woman dominating a businessman is genuine. But when a client wants to go too far, Ai backs off and leaves the scene. She even gives back money, especially to a man who wants her to play a corpse he would then rape. “I want to relive a legendary murder from the fifties, so play that girl who was strangled and raped for me,” a client explains to her and the frightened Ai leaves instead and throws the money she already got on the bed. A man who wants to be choked and our heroine almost kills him is also very shocking. Of course, there’s also the man who adores it when a woman does him anally. There’s the man who adores a game with mirrors and vibrators. Of course, there’s also the couple which demands she participates in their sexual act. These are immoral perverts who often go too far for even the most patient prostitute like Ai.

Topazu (Tokyo Decadence) is story of a prostitute who takes on only sadomasochistic clients is nowadays still prohibited in some places.

Profound portrayal of an emotionally beaten woman

Let there be no mistake, this movie isn’t straightforward, regardless of the nudity and very explicit erotic scenes because the dramatisation is constantly good and the story makes sense. This means that we see a shocking, deep and tragic display of an emotionally beaten woman who detaches herself from her body and who uses her body only for her clients’ pleasure. This is a portrayal of an alienated, cold and dead society, where ordinary intercourse isn’t enough anymore and where you have to do more and more extreme things, where the prostitutes even end up seriously injured after the session – only physically because they no longer have a soul. The movie is still prohibited in Australia and North Korea and there are many versions floating around that have been seriously censored. If you’re looking for a quality and very explicit portrayal of the life of a prostitute, then Topazu (translated as Tokyo Decadence in America) is the right choice.