Hidden meanings in Film noir: Tokyo decadence (1992) - The perverted undeserving, and its not just about Tokyo!

Published on 19 October 2024 at 13:36

Tokyo decadence (1992) - The perverted undeserving, and its not just about Tokyo!
Starring Miho Nikaido, is the story of a young college student who works as a prostitute for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy, perverted men. The perverted fantasy scenarios are reminiscent of labour camps in WW II.
You might be aroused or disgusted by the deprecating sex scenes in this movie, but here are some themes for society that you might have missed.

  • Destruction of love: 
    Perverted practices showing punishments, humiliation, and disgraceful practices that sometimes put Miho's life in danger are the high points of this movie. These scenes serve to symbolize the destruction of love and the enslavement and entrapment of Angelic women by the demonic under a tenet that forbids love.
    The humiliation of love is pleasurable to the undeserving and Miho's love is exploited in various ways by her clients.
    Miho becomes maddened by the entire process at the end of the movie. This is to symbolize the confusion of the sleeping Angelic who become confused and cannot bear the wrongness of losing love. The deceit women face in their youth, certainly needs to be checkmated.
  • Misdirection: 
    Miho patronizes a fortune teller enroute to a clients hotel, and the fortune teller gives her three absurd revelations. These just symbolizes the misdirection of religious and spiritual practices which have no tangible benefits for the correction of our human journey. In reality, as a young woman, Miho is loaded with blessings, for her and her lovers, but her acceptance of a system of wrongness, which requires the sale and destruction of love, equal grants rights to the bond masters to control her. So rather than walk in the light of love, by seeking meaningful relationships and healthy sexual pleasures, she is misdirected to spiritualism. Our problem is here, not in the spirit realm!!!
  • Stealing the rights of the Angelic: 
    Another aspect of misdirection is the notion among women that their pimps, enslavers, or system boys derive pleasure or are fantasied by their nudity. Absolutely not! This is just an aspect of the demonic tenets which destroy the love of women through humiliating public nudity practices and the use of lust as a gateway into the abundant riches of the angelic. By owning women and displaying their nudity for 'fools' to lust at, the demonic claim a right to the stealing of angelic wealth.
  • No benefits: 
    The movie has a strong theme of hard drugs. Hard drugs are a means of degrading and controlling the angelic or 'sleeping fools', so the higher your income from the system the more likely you'd be introduced to financially draining systems like hard drugs. Hard drugs is also used to symbolize that the sustenance of a demonic tenet which is based on 'Wrongness'. Thus, in reality the introduction of hard drugs serves to indicate that the wrongness of the demonic tenets is sustained.
    The movie also symbolizes the disparities in society due to the wrongness of cheating as Miho walks like a maddened woman back to her residence where she hopes to meet her family or find love, but she collapses at the end of the journey. This symbolizes the futility of finding love through the path she has taken.
    Miho finally symbolizes her freedom from enslavement and entrapment by lighting a firework, but she looked empty and dejected and she was driven away by the owner of the house. This portrays the return of women to nothingness and emptiness after donating their youth to a system that doesn't care. Even those who marry within the system are still subjected to degrading and abusive practices.
  • The undeserving bond masters: 
    Tokyo decadence also provides a perfect example of the underserving bond masters who are bonded to also disgrace themselves due to the wrongness of the enslavement and entrapment of angelic women. The movie depicts one of Miho clients as a submissive dog, who needs to drink Miho's piss and vomit in a dog pan. It is quite a disgusting sight as he is degraded by whippings and licking of the soles of the shoes before begging to be feed with a dog bowl of urine and vomits. Evidence of underserving bond masters is also in the movie 'Poor things' starring Emma Stone (https://www.filmnoir.ca/blog/2100796_film-noir-poor-things-emma-stone-s-furious-jumping-spree ), and the movie Paprika ( https://www.filmnoir.ca/blog/2106804_film-noir-paprika-1991-deceived-by-love ). 
    In reality, the self-degrading practices of the bond masters helps them acknowledge that there's nothing 'special' about their wrongs. This is however unacceptable because the nature of the degradation itself, serves as an indication of the specialness of the wrongs. Moreover, self deprecating practices is not an excuse to continue with the wrongness of enslaving and entrapping women.
    Mind you, these bond masters can humiliate and punish thousands of girls and only use one self-degrading experience to withstand the specialness of the wrongs. 

Miho finally gets helped to overcome her insanity and returns to pursuing her talents in sign language. This is used to represent the fact that all hope is not lost. This is Film Noir!!! 

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