Pink Tush Girl

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. Synopsis 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. Cast Kahori Takeda as Rena Sakakibara Ako as Yuko Taguchi Atsushi Takahashi as Gen'ichi Kikawada Yūji Nogami as Takinoue Akio Kuwasaki as Yamashina Asami Morikawa as Ryōko Matsuzaki Kunio Shimizu as Tōru Kinoshita Risato Sasaki Yūko Katagiri as Tokie Yamada Yûya Uchida as Sen'ichi Yamada Ushi Tōyama as Ken Ishida Satoko Ōtake as High school girl Nobue Ichitani as Nobue Sakakibara Etsuko Seki as Hiroko Taguchi Shirô Kishibe as Mastumoto Osamu Hashimoto as Shop owner Critical appraisal 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.