Release
I.K.U. premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in the Midnight program on January 29, 2000. It marks the first time a pornographic film was selected for competition in the festival. According to director Shu Lea Cheang, approximately 40 percent of the audience walked out over the course of the film, predominately during the sex scenes. The exodus was not repeated at subsequent screenings when Cheang "spelled out and challenged the audience to stay."
The movie was subsequently released as a DVD in Japan in June 2006 by Up Link (アップリンク?)and in the United States by Music Video Distributors with the title I.K.U. (This Is Not Love This Is Sex).
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