Flower and Snake (花と蛇, Hana to hebi) aka Flowers and Serpents (1974) is a Japanese soft-core S/M film starring Naomi Tani, directed by Masaru Konuma and produced by Nikkatsu. Based on a novel by Oniroku Dan (b. 1931), Japan's best-known author of S&M; fiction, Flower and Snake was the first of Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno films to deal with an S&M; theme. Together with the later Wife to be Sacrificed (also directed by Konuma in 1974, and starring the s...
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Flower and Snake (花と蛇, Hana to hebi) aka Flowers and Serpents (1974) is a Japanese soft-core S/M film starring Naomi Tani, directed by Masaru Konuma and produced by Nikkatsu. Based on a novel by Oniroku Dan (b. 1931), Japan's best-known author of S&M; fiction, Flower and Snake was the first of Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno films to deal with an S&M; theme. Together with the later Wife to be Sacrificed (also directed by Konuma in 1974, and starring the same female and male leads) this film is credited with starting the S&M; Roman Porno series which helped save Nikkatsu from collapse during the 1970s.
In a very successful effort to avoid bankruptcy, Nikkatsu, Japan's oldest major film studio, had entered the pink film, or soft-core pornography, genre three years earlier, in 1971, with its popular and critically praised Roman Porno series. However 1974 was proving to be another difficult year for the studio, with no real box-office hits.
Since the late 1960s, Naomi Tani had been known as the ...
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