Lesbian Harem

Tomoaki Hosoyama filmed Lesbian Harem for Shintōhō Eiga and it was released theatrically in Japan by that studio on April 18, 1987.^[1] 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).^[3]

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.^[3]

• Lesbian Harem at IMDb
• "LESBIAN HAREM". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
• Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 241. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)

• レズビアンハーレム (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
• レズビアンハーレム (in Japanese). Xcity. Retrieved 2011-01-25.