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Lesbian Harem
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Wikipedia article
is a 1987 Japanese 'pink film' directed by Tomoaki Hosoyama.
Synopsis
Two lesbian lovers (Reika Kano and Kyko Hashimoto) escape the city to commit a lovers-suicide deep in the forest. There they are captured by the queen (Chiemi Akimoto) of a lesbian colony who uses the two lovers for her own sex games. The couple organize a revolt against the queen.
Cast
* Reika Kano as Iori
* Yuriko Kytoku as Yui
* Kumi Uesugi as M.P.
* Noriko Kikuchi as Michiko
* Kyko Hashimoto as An
* Chiemi Akimoto as Queen
* Itsumi Shikata as Shima
* Mirai Akiyama as Lady-in-Waiting
* Tomomi Matsuda as M.P.
Background
Tomoaki Hosoyama filmed 'Lesbian Harem' for Shinth Eiga and it was released theatrically in Japan by that studio on April 18, 1987. U.S. low-budget exploitation films had become popular in Japan with the advent of home video. Director Hosoyama made 'Lesbian Harem' on a similarly low budget, and designed the film as a tribute to these films, and particularly as an 'homage' to John Waters' 'Desperate Living' (1977).
In their 'Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films', Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser give 'Lesbian Harem' three out of four stars. Noting that 'Lesbian Harem' is an important film on its own, they point out that in many ways this early Hosoyama film also anticipates his later hit, 'Weather Girl' (1993). Hosoyama's attitude towards lesbianism, in particular, is shared between these films, and in direct opposition to the way it was depicted in most contemporary 'pink films' dealing with the subject. Rather than showing lesbians as women who are bitter from bad experiences with heterosexual affairs, and who are victims of a disapproving society, Hosoyama shows lesbianism simply as a lifestyle which the storyline accepts without judgment.
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Category:1987 films
Category:1980s Japanese-language films
Category:Pink films
Category:Shinth Eiga films
Category:Japanese LGBT-related films
Category:1987 LGBT-related films
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