Pink Tush Girl
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| Directed by | Kōyū Ohara |
| Written by | Narito Kaneko (screenplay) Osamu Hashimoto (novel) |
| Starring | Kaori Takeda Ako Yūko Katagiri |
| Music by | Daikō Nagato |
| Cinematography | Masaru Mori |
| Edited by | Atsushi Nabeshima |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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87 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Pink Tush Girl aka Pink Hip Girl (桃尻娘 ピンク・ヒップ・ガール Momojiri musume: Pinku hippu gaaru?) is a 1978 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's Roman porno series, directed by Kōyū Ohara and starring Kaori Takeda, Ako and Yūko Katagiri. It is based on an award-winning novel by Osamu Hashimoto.
An extroverted high school girl befriends an introverted female classmate, and the two begin exploring their curiosity about sex together. They begin working as prostitutes, but their friendship is tested when they both fall in love with the same man. The film ends on an upbeat note with the two girls reconciling their friendship.
In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers note that with the Pink Tush Girl trilogy, Kōyū Ohara reversed the style of his earlier dark films such as the True Story of a Woman in Prison trilogy (1975-1977). In the Pink Tush Girl films Ohara depicts, "an erotic world from pop music and high school tribulations". Unlike most films in the Roman Porno series, the films were popular with both men and women. The Weissers attribute this partly to the on-screen relationship between the two lead performers, Kahori Takeda and Ako.
The director noted that this upbeat, breezy take on the sex lives of two female characters was at odds with the way that women were depicted in the pink film at the time. Ohara was enthusiastic about this aspect of the project, and because of this, caused the film to go over-budget. He remembered, "I was scolded severely by the Nikkatsu management", but he felt vindicated when the film's popularity caused the studio to ask him to make sequels.
In his survey of the films of Kōyū Ohara, Graham Lewis writes that though Pink Hip Girl is less serious in tone than Ohara's earlier films, it is no less well-made and thoroughly enjoyable. He notes that Ohara's nickname, "King of Pink-Pop" derives largely from his work in this film and its sequels. Lewis concludes, "If Ohara's other films sound too rough for you, this might be your cup of tea".
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