Flower & Snake

2004•1h 55m•

★5.7(54 ratings)

DramaRomanceThriller

Overview

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

Director

Takashi Ishii

Writers

Takashi Ishii

Watchlist

Main Cast

Aya Sugimoto

Shizuko Toyama

Renji Ishibashi

Ippei Tashiro

Misaki Moritsuki

Kyoko Nojima

Kenichi Endo

Kanzo Morita

Ito Yozaburo

Clown man

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Flower & Snake

2004•1h 55m•

★5.7(54 ratings)

DramaRomanceThriller

Overview

Director

Takashi Ishii

Writers

Takashi Ishii

Watchlist

Main Cast

Aya Sugimoto

Shizuko Toyama

Renji Ishibashi

Ippei Tashiro

Misaki Moritsuki

Kyoko Nojima

Kenichi Endo

Kanzo Morita

Ito Yozaburo

Clown man

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Full Crew

Direction

Director: Takashi Ishii

Writing

Screenplay: Takashi Ishii
Novel: Oniroku Dan

Music & Sound

Original Music Composer: Goro Yasukawa
Sound Effects: Yoshio Nakamura
Sound Recordist: Mineharu Kitamura

Cinematography

Director of Photography: Hiro'o Yanagida
Director of Photography: Takashi Komatsu

Editing

Editor: Yûji Murayama

Art Direction

Production Design: Takayuki Suzuki
Production Design: Toshiaki Takahashi

Did You Know?

The original title is "花と蛇" (JA).

The runtime is 115 minutes (1h 55m).

The film was directed by Takashi Ishii.

The screenplay was written by Takashi Ishii.

The score was composed by Goro Yasukawa.

Cinematography was handled by Hiro'o Yanagida.

This title is listed on IMDb as tt0388098.

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Rating

5.7/10

Average

54 votes

Movie Information

Original Title:

花と蛇

Status:

Released

Age Rating:

18+

Language:

English, 日本語

Country of Origin:

Japan

Production Companies:

Femme Fatale Pictures

Toei Video Company

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Flower & Snake

Overview

Director

Writers

Main Cast

Aya Sugimoto

Renji Ishibashi

Misaki Moritsuki

Kenichi Endo

Ito Yozaburo

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Flower & Snake

Overview

Director

Writers

Main Cast

Aya Sugimoto

Renji Ishibashi

Misaki Moritsuki

Kenichi Endo

Ito Yozaburo

Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi

Shun Nakayama

Shigeo Kobayashi

Naoki Matsuda

Tomoo Yageta

Taeko Uzuki

Miyako Kawahara

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Writing

Music & Sound

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