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(More customer reviews)A good movie overall. There's two storyline essentially: one is about this young educated girl lost in the world of S&M prostitution in the heart of Tokyo. The other story is derivative or symbolic: the time when the Tokyo Bubble burst and the economic slump affected most of Japan's working society and turned their world upside down. Both the heroine as well as the people of Japan wants to redeem themselves, but the mindset of the majority prevents this from happening. The performances was good. Photography was excellent. Ryuichi Sakamoto provided a tailored score for the film. Director Murakami was in his top form when he did this. The Cinema Epoch edition of this DVD is the best so far compared to previous editions like Image or Triboro which butchered (shortened) this film into 90 or so minutes. The Epoch edition is the uncut version which is 112 minutes. Forget about the mythical 135 minutes version as IMDB has touted, for that one doesn't really exist. The transfer was good although there was a slight saturation of colors: you'll notice this in the red lips of the heroine smeared on your monitor. The Special Features bundled into the DVD was entertaining and very informative for the cult fans of this film. The white subtitles were readable and the translations were correct. And by the way, don't stop the DVD on the closing credits 'cause after this we see a bonus of the heroine with all smiles doing a Can-can dance number.
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