The Red Petal Is Wet (1977)

Top star Teruho Matsunaga of the Nikkatsu Music Hall returns to collaborate with veteran director Shōgorō Nishimura, following her acclaimed performance in the previous film Erotic Wife: Flesh’s Temptation, in this devastatingly sensual tragic romance. Stripper Miyuki (Matsunaga) and Jirō (Hayashi) meet at an orgy party at the Hanada (Kose) residence. Miyuki, abandoned by a man and feeling desperate, had no intention of yielding to the advances of the toad-like Hanada. Jiro comforted Miyuki after she managed to escape Hanada. However, Jiro, once the prodigal son of a respectable family, had become a drug addict, his body and soul utterly ruined.