Japan Synopsis
花と蛇
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
The 2003–2005 Japan Window
298 Japan films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. Flower & Snake sits at position #271.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Flower & Snake. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
The 2000s Japan Landscape
Catalog density by release year in the 2000s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Flower & Snake premiered. 1020 total titles in this decade from Japan.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #4,317 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (6th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is -1.6 points below the Japan average of 6.9/10.
Among Japan Drama productions specifically: #1,865 of 1,933 (top 96%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Japan |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Japanese |
| Spoken Languages | Japanese, English |
| Production Companies | Femme Fatale Pictures, Toei Video Company, Toei Company, Evolution Entertainment, KinoVista |
| Runtime | 1h 55m |
| Release Date | March 13, 2004 |
| IMDb | tt0388098 |