Film Information

In Wife to Be Sacrificed, Queen of Japanese erotica Naomi Tani plays Akiko, a wife who charges her husband with sexual battery. But he escapes from the police and goes into hiding.

As three years pass, Akiko divorces him and tries to put the pieces of her life back in order. Suddenly, he returns. Full of rage and hatred, he kidnaps her and takes her to a house in a remote wooded area. There he disciplines Akiko vehemently, subjecting her to increasingly shocking forms of sexual torture, tetherings, and humiliations.

Astonishingly, through the anger and lust, the pair develop a relationship that pushes the boundary of lurid passion and perverse obsession.

Kimstim presents Wife to Be Sacrificed on DVD from a digitally restored 16x9 master.

Japan / 1975 / 80 min. / color / in Japanese with English subtitles / unrated

WIFE TO BE SACRIFICED
(aka IKENIE FUJIN)
starring NAOMI TANI, TERUMI AZUMA
written by MASARU MORI
music by TAICHI TSUKIMIZATO
directed by MASARU KONUMA

”[four stars]” - Japanese Cinema Essential Handbook

”Intimate and artfully extreme, Miss Tani is Japan’s most exciting actress.” - Cult Movies Magazine

”Artistically potent” - The Chicago Tribune

”It’s like watching a sexual madhouse.” - The San Francisco Chronicle

"The films of Masaru Konuma are stylishly directed and singularly harrowing." – Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia

• Original Theatrical Trailer
• Konuma Bio / Filmography
• "Sadistic and Masochistic" (2000, 91 min., color, in Japanese w/ English subtitles)
  From director Hideo Nakata (famous for the horror hit The Ring), a documentary about Masaru Konuma. Nakata served as assistant director to Konuma on many films and respects him as his mentor.