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&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Flower_and_Snake.jpg) Poster to the Nikkatsu Roman porno film, Flower and Snake | |
| Directed by | Masaru Konuma |
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| Cinematography | Shohei Ando |
| Music by | Riichiro Manabe |
| Distributed by | Nikkatsu |
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Running time | 74 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Flower and Snake (花と蛇, Hana to hebi) a.k.a. Flowers and Serpents (1974) is a Japanese pink film starring Naomi Tani, directed by Masaru Konuma and produced by Nikkatsu. Based on a novel by Oniroku Dan (born 1931), Japan's best-known author of sadomasochistic (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 financial collapse during the 1970s.[1]
- ^ Macias, Patrick. (2001). TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. (Review of Flower and Snake by Izumi Evers). Cadence Books, San Francisco. ISBN 1-56931-681-3, p.183.