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Flower & Snake

2004 · 115 min

A slow, unsettling descent into erotic cruelty and psychological ambiguity, demanding and visually striking but emotionally harrowing.

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

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • power
  • betrayal
  • identity
  • sexuality
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour1
Realism6
Romance3
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama, romance, thriller, horror, mystery
Directed by
Takashi Ishii
Written by
Takashi Ishii
Starring
Aya Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi, Misaki Moritsuki, Kenichi Endo, Yozaburo Ito, Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Shun Nakayama, Shigeo Kobayashi
Music
Goro Yasukawa
Cinematography
Takashi Komatsu, Hiro'o Yanagida
Runtime
115 min
Country
Japan
Languages
English, Japanese

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