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57% Critic Match
Flower & Snake
5.7 / 10• 2004• 1h 55m•NR• Japanese
DramaRomanceThrillerHorrorMystery
Storyline
The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife to the lecherous old man figuring a 90 year old can’t do too much bad with her. Perhaps not, but others can while he watches. She’s put on stage in an underground BDSM sex show and begins a spiraling decent from strongly independent woman to submissive sex slave
Cast & Crew
Aya Sugimoto
Shizuko Toyama
Lead
Renji Ishibashi
Ippei Tashiro
Misaki Moritsuki
Kyoko Nojima
Kenichi Endo
Kanzo Morita
Yozaburo Ito
Clown man
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Ryo Eguchi
Shun Nakayama
Kazuo Kawada
Shigeo Kobayashi
Yoshizawa
What People Are Saying
3.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Takashi Ishii's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. Flower & Snake is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
