Wife to Be Sacrificed 生贄夫人
Konuma Masaru's 1974 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film starring Tani Naomi, the studio's biggest hit of the year and a defining film of its SM line.
Wife to Be Sacrificed (Ikenie Fujin) is a Nikkatsu Roman Porno film released on October 26, 1974. It was directed by Konuma Masaru from a script by Tanaka Yōzō and stars Tani Naomi, with Sakamoto Nagatoshi and Azuma Terumi; English Wikipedia gives a running time of 71 minutes. The National Diet Library holds a 2006 Nikkatsu DVD edition.
It followed Flower and Snake, made earlier the same year by the same director and leads. English Wikipedia reports that Dan Oniroku, unhappy with how that adaptation had treated his novel, was not involved in this film, although he later gave Nikkatsu the exclusive rights to film his novels.
According to English Wikipedia, the film was Nikkatsu’s biggest success of 1974 and remains among its five most successful releases. It established Tani as the first of the studio’s “SM queens” and is credited, together with Flower and Snake, with launching the SM strand of Roman Porno. Critics and fans of the genre generally rank it among the best films of the series. It reached American cinemas in 1998 through Phaedra Cinema and was later released on DVD in the United States. Daily Sports’ obituary of Konuma lists it among his best-known works.