Sugar Sweet (2003)

Rated: ♥♥ (2/5)

Sugar Sweet is about a struggling lesbian porn director who is having trouble conforming to industry standard. She desires to make artistic lesbian porn, but her employers want raunchy and degrading. She apparently is also shooting a television dating show. After deciding to have lesbians on her dating show, she employs one of her friends and some random bitch she meet at the bar. Her life is hectic and the only escape she has is chatting online with Sugar. But who is Sugar really? And why won't she ever meet with her in real life?

This synopsis probably makes this movie sound much better than it really is. The truth is that while the plot itself isn't actually too bad, the movie fails on a technical level. Bad lighting. Bad camera work. And I'm pretty sure if I actually spoke Japanese, I would notice bad acting as well. The only reason this movie deserved even 2 stars is because; 1. the actors were relatively hot and 2. it provided an interesting look into the Japanese lesbian culture. It should also be noted that at points I wondered if this was merely a pink film*, it was so graphic and dirty at times.

Watch the trailer here.

*In case you didn't know, in Japan movies are so highly censored that porn without plotlines aren't allowed. This has caused the need for the genre of "pink films". Meaning, bad movies with barely enough plot to hold it together, but a lot of sex.