Flower and Snake (2004)
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Flower & Snake花と蛇
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
Cast
Aya Sugimoto
Renji Ishibashi
Misaki Mori
Kenichi Endo
Ito Yozaburo
Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi
Shun Nakayama
Shigeo Kobayashi
Naoki Matsuda
Tomoo Yageta
Taeko Uzuki
Miyako Kawahara
Tomezô Tsunokake
Susumu Terajima
Crew
Kazuto Sato
Goro Yasukawa
Takashi Ishii
Takashi Ishii
Oniroku Dan
Hiro'o Yanagida
Yûji Murayama
Takashi Komatsu
Also known as: Hana to hebi
Description: Tôyama, a weak-willed businessman, is in debt to the Yakuza; they also have a video of him bribing a government minister. To clear his debts, he agrees to let them drug and kidnap his wife Shizuko, Japan’s queen of the tango, and subject her to the proclivities of a 95-year-old voyeur, who’s a Yakuza boss. After a masked ball, Shizuko is taken prisoner; she fights her captors, submitting only when the life of Kyôko, her female bodyguard, is threatened. Tôyama feels regret and seeks to buy back Shizuko, but by this time, she may be enjoying her situation. Is she, or is she pretending in order to protect herself and Kyôko? Would she want a way out if there is one?
