South Korea refuses "Tokyo Decadence"

[Miles Wood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Brown" <the8thsamurai at hotmail.com>
To: <kinejapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:04 AM
Subject: South Korea refuses "Tokyo Decadence"

> "Tokyo Decadence" is Murakami's 1992 film adaptation of his own novel
> "Topaz" about a woman working in an S&M club. Its importation was declined
> on January 29th for its "excessive scenes of perverted erotica, and as it
> conflicts with the sentiments of the Korean people."

Which begs the question: What are "the sentiments of the Korean people?"

Miles