Variation (1976) aka Hensôkyoku

1976
September 12, 2020

The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago and had met again in Paris. A lot of things have happened in the past 10 years, including the woman getting married.

Flower & Snake 3

Flower & Snake 3 (2010)

2010

Shizuko (Minako Komukai), a budding cellist, is married to Yoshiichiro Kaito, chairman of the Kansai Zaibatsu. They live a happy life both publicly and privately. However, in such a peaceful life, the devil’s hand of Takayama Toyama, president of the Toyama group, creeps up. Toyama, an ambitious person who is willing to use despicable means for his own desires, plans to make Shizuko his own. She drives Shizuko’s husband into bankruptcy and death and makes […]

Flower & Snake II (2005)

2005

Tooyama, an aging impotent art critic, sends his much-younger wife, Shizuko, to Paris to evaluate the work of Ikegami, an artist he sponsors. She discovers she’s curious about sado-masochism, and soon she becomes Ikegami’s object of bondage as well as his muse. Encounters with Ikegami lead her into a shadowy world of wealthy patrons of ropes, humiliation, and slavery. Ikegami discovers his protective side, and Tooyama reenters the picture. Once Shizuko can reestablish control over […]

Areno (2015)

2015

A wife and her lover push her husband into a lake then wait at a hotel for news of his fate, screwing several times while at it. The wife’s guilt leads her to also cheat on her lover and screw a young guy she met at the laundry shop.