Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! 発禁本「美人乱舞」より 責める！
Tanaka Noboru's 1977 Nikkatsu drama about the life of the painter Itō Seiu, set in the Taishō period, the last film of his Shōwa trilogy.
Beauty’s Exotic Dance: Torture! (Hakkinbon “Bijin Ranbu” yori: Semeru!, also known as “From the Banned Book ‘Wild Dance of a Beautiful Woman’: Torture!”) is a Nikkatsu Roman Porno film released on February 23, 1977. It was directed by Tanaka Noboru from a script by Ido Akio, stars Miyashita Junko and runs 83 minutes.
The film portrays the life of the painter and writer Itō Seiu, whom English Wikipedia’s article on hojōjutsu calls the father of kinbaku. Set in the Taishō period, it draws on Itō’s own journalistic writings to show his relationships with his two wives and with a young woman he meets at a brothel, and his practice of having bound models photographed as studies for his paintings of Edo-period tortures.
English Wikipedia places it as the third film of Tanaka’s Shōwa trilogy, after A Woman Called Sada Abe (1975) and Watcher in the Attic (1976). The same article reports that it was received less warmly than the first two because of its more explicit SM themes, while Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser gave it their top rating and Allmovie called it an amoral masterpiece. English Wikipedia’s article on Itō Seiu also mentions the film as based on his life.