{{Infobox film | name = Lady Moonflower | image = Lady Moonflower.jpg | caption = Theatrical poster for ''Lady Moonflower'' (1976) | director = Katsuhiko Fujii<ref>Infobox data from {{cite web |url= http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12674|title= 夕顔夫人|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)}}</ref> | producer = | writer = Oniroku Dan | narrator = | starring = Naomi Tani | music = Hajime Kaburagi | cinematography = Onozumasa Mizuno | editing = Akira Suzuki | distributor = Nikkatsu | released = {{Film date|1976|12|08}} | runtime = 70 min. | country = Japan | language = Japanese | budget = | gross = }}
{{nihongo|'''''Lady Moonflower'''''|夕顔夫人|Yūgao Fujin}}, a.k.a. '''''Flower of the Night''''', is a 1976 Japanese film in Nikkatsu's ''Roman porno'' series, directed by Katsuhiko Fujii and starring Naomi Tani.
==Synopsis== Kizaki kidnaps Yuriko and engages in a rape and torture session with her, which he photographs. With the photos, he blackmails aristocratic flower arrangement teacher Yumeji, Yuriko's older sister. Rather than allow him to shame her clan by sending the photos to the media, Yumeji goes to Kizaki. Kizaki then proceeds to rape and torture Yumeji, who was his true desire all along. Yumeji escapes from Kizaki at the end of the film.<ref name="Weisser 226">{{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis|url-access=limited|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecinemaen00weis/page/n227 226] }}</ref>
==Cast== * Naomi Tani<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=145726|script-title=ja:団鬼六 夕顔夫人(1976)|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}</ref> * Erina Miyai * Osamu Tsuruoka * Tokuko Watanabe * Shinsho Nakamaru * Tamaki Katsura
== Background == Director Katsuhiko Fujii had been a competent director at Nikkatsu, making lower-profile sequels in the ''Apartment Wife'' and ''Eros Schedule Book'' series until his talent for SM showed through in the Naomi Tani project, ''Cruelty: Black Rose Torture'' (1975).<ref>Weisser, p. 97.</ref> In ''Lady Moonflower'' he teamed up with Tani again, with a script by her long-time collaborator, SM-author Oniroku Dan.<ref name="Weisser 226"/> Kōyū Ohara would direct a more successful variation on the story of ''Lady Moonflower'', also scripted by Dan and starring Tani, in ''Fairy in a Cage'' (1977), which is regarded as one of the best of Nikkatsu's forays into the SM-themed ''pink film''.<ref>Weisser, pp. 226, 136.</ref>
==Bibliography==
===English=== * {{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}} * {{cite book |last=Weisser|first=Thomas|author2=Yuko Mihara Weisser |title=Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films|year=1998|publisher=Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications|location=Miami|isbn=1-889288-52-7 }} * {{IMDb title|0287162|Yugao fujin (1976)}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.citwf.com/film393587.htm|title=YUGAO FUJIN|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=Complete Index to World Film}}
===Japanese=== * {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=145726|script-title=ja:団鬼六 夕顔夫人(1976)|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}} * {{cite web |url= http://www.japanese-cinema-db.jp/details/12674|script-title=ja:夕顔夫人|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs)|language=Japanese}} * {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1976/cz003990.htm|script-title=ja:夕顔夫人|access-date=2009-09-05|language=Japanese|publisher=Japanese Movie Database}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/18614|script-title=ja:夕顔夫人(邦画)|access-date=2009-09-05|language=Japanese|publisher=Kinema Junpo|archive-date=2011-10-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111007222202/http://www.kinejun.jp/cinema/id/18614|url-status=dead}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com/shousai/h30.html|script-title=ja:団鬼六・夕顔夫人|access-date=2009-09-05|publisher=www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com|language=Japanese|archive-date=2011-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714183904/http://www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com/shousai/h30.html|url-status=dead}}
==Notes== {{reflist}}
Category:1976 films Category:1976 Japanese-language films Category:Nikkatsu films Category:Nikkatsu Roman Porno Category:1976 Japanese films Category:Films scored by Hajime Kaburagi