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Directed by | Takashi Ishii |
Produced by | Kazuo Shimizu Hitoshi Matsuda Tooru Ishii |
Written by | Novel: Oniroku Dan Screenplay: Takashi Ishii |
Music by | Gorō Yasukawa |
Cinematography | Takashi Komatsu Kazuto Sato Hiroo Yanagida |
Editing by | Yuji Murayama |
Released | March 13, 2004 |
Running time | 115 min. |
Followed by | Flower & Snake II (2005) |
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Flower & Snake (花と蛇 Hana to Hebi) is a 2004 Japanese film based on a Oniruku Dan novel and directed by Takashi Ishii. It is a remake of the 1974 film of the same name.
Plot Summary[]
Toyama is a wealthy business man whose married to a famous tango dancer named Shizuko. When one of Toyama's disgruntled former employees hands over sensitive information about Toyama's shady business practices to yakuza they decide to blackmail him into giving them his wife in exchange for keeping his secret. Their boss, the 95 year old Tashiro is obsessed with Shizuko and arranges for her to be tied up, tortured, and raped while he watches on a giant television screen. Throughout the process his underlings attempt to break her will and convince her to go along with it willingly to save the lives of two of her husband's employees who they have also captured.
Cast[]
- Aya Sugimoto ... Shizuko Toyama
- Renji Ishibashi ... Ippei Tashiro
- Kenichi Endo ... Kanzo Morita
- Misaki Mori ... Kyoko Nojima
- Yozaburo Ito ... Clown man
- Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi ... Ryo Eguchi
- Shun Nakayama ... Kazuo Kawada
- Shigeo Kobayashi ... Yoshizawa
- Naoki Matsuda ... Murata
- Tomoo Yageta ... Tsuchiya
- Taeko Uzuki ... Crucified woman/sacrificial woman
- Miyako Kawahara ... Chiyo
- Blake Crawford
- Mr. Buddhaman ... Kudo
- Tomezo Tsunokake ... Kashiwagi
- Kazuya Shimizu
- Noriyuki Ishii
- Hirokazu Miyata
- Yuji Kitahara
- Kazuki Hashimoto
- Masanori Tomita
- Kakuji Nakamura
- Yusuke Ujihara
- Yuichi Makita
- Sojiro Komatsu
- Masatoshi Kaneko
- Masakazu Ikeda
- Masayuki Akinaga
- Miki Sato
- Hidetaka Ichiyama
- Yuji Suzuki
- Sadu ... Secretary of Representative Tomimoto
- Daisuke Iijima ... Representative Tomimoto
- Go Arisue ... Gen'ichi Onimura
- Susumu Terajima ... Yamazaki
- Hironobu Nomura ... Takayoshi Toyama
External links[]
- Flower & Snake review at Monsters At Play
- Flower & Snake review at Asian Film Reviews