Flower and Snake
Flower and Snake is a 1974 film from Japan, directed by Masaru Konuma, running 74 minutes. reelscum files it under sexploitation.
- Year
- 1974 · 1970s films
- Country
- Japan
- Runtime
- 74 min
- Director
- Masaru Konuma
- Updated
- 10 Aug 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (37/100)
- Also known as
- Flower and Snake · Flower & Snake · Flowers and Snakes · Flower & Snake '74
Defined in the glossary: Sexploitation
The film that made Nikkatsu's S&M line a going concern. Rope, and lots of it.
One of the founding texts of Nikkatsu's Roman Porno era, adapted from Oniroku Dan's kinbaku fiction and largely responsible for putting Japanese rope bondage on cinema screens. A repressed company president has a colleague's wife abducted and delivered to a dungeon, where an old master sets about breaking her, and the film treats the ropework itself as the main event. Masaru Konuma shoots it with more style and restraint than the material promises, which is why it got sequels and imitators for the better part of a decade. It is bleak and not remotely a good time, and also the reason a whole genre exists.
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