Masaru Konuma

Masaru Konuma (30 December 1937, Otaru, Hokkaidō, Japan - 22 January 2023) was a Japanese film director known for his Roman Porno films for Nikkatsu during the 1970s. He studied film at Nihon University and joined Nikkatsu in 1961. His first film as director was Call of the Pistil (1971), and two of his most popular films — Flower and Snake and Wife to Be Sacrificed — were made for Nikkatsu in 1974, both starring Naomi Tani. He directed more than 47 films, specialising in S&M, and was the subject of Hideo Nakata's documentary Sadistic and Masochistic (2000).