LK21 NONTON Flower and Snake (Hana to hebi) (2004)

Synopsis
Flower and Snake (Hana to hebi) (2004) Film ini menceritakan TA´yama, a weak-willed businessman, is in debt to the Yakuza; they also have a video of him bribing a government minister. To clear his debts, he agrees to let them drug and kidnap his wife Shizuko, Japan's queen of the tango, and subject her to the proclivities of a 95-year-old voyeur, who's a Yakuza boss. After a masked ball, Shizuko is taken prisoner; she fights her captors, submitting only when the life of KyA´ko, her female bodyguard, is threatened. TA´yama feels regret and seeks to buy back Shizuko, but by this time, she may be enjoying her situation. Is she, or is she pretending in order to protect herself and KyA´ko? Would she want a way out if there is one?



Takashi Ishii
Aya Sugimoto, Renji Ishibashi, Ken'ichi Endô
2004-03-13 (Japan)
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