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Flower and Snake: Zero / Hana to hebi: Zero (2014)
Thriller
Misaki Amemiya is an assistant inspector for the Metropolitan Police Department’s Community Safety Bureau who becomes ensnared in a trap while investigating a mysterious illegal video website called “Babylon”. Soon, she’s bound and tortured along with Shizuko and an oversexed housewife named Ruri.
Starring: Maiko Amano, Noriko Hamada, Rina Sakuragi
Director: Hajime Hashimoto
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Flower and Snake 3 / Hana to hebi 3 (2010)
Drama
Shizuko Toyama is a rising cellist who comes back to Japan from Italy. She then falls into a planned sensual trap where she is bound with straw rope, given a diuretic, and more …
Starring: Minako Komukai
Director: Yusuke Narita
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Flower and Snake 2 / Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko (2005)
Drama | Thriller
Tooyama, an aging impotent art critic, sends his much-younger wife, Shizuko, to Paris to evaluate the work of Ikegami, an artist he sponsors. She discovers she’s curious about sado-masochism, and soon she becomes Ikegami’s object of bondage as well as his muse. Encounters with Ikegami lead her into a shadowy world of wealthy patrons of ropes, humiliation, and slavery. Ikegami discovers his protective side, and Tooyama reenters the picture. Once Shizuko can reestablish control over her life, she can make a choice.
Starring: Aya Sugimoto
Director: Takashi Ishii
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Flower and Snake / Hana to hebi (2004)
Drama | Thriller
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?
Starring: Aya Sugimoto
Director: Takashi Ishii
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Tags: Aya Sugimoto, Takashi Ishii