Love Ritual is a film based on the crime of Japanese Cannibal Issei Sagawa. Japanese VHS copy.

Issei Sagawa, also known as Pang or The Kobe Cannibal, is a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophile known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. Sagawa murdered Hartevelt then mutilated, cannibalized, and performed necrophilia on her corpse over several days.