Flower and Snake (2004 film) 花と蛇
Ishii Takashi's 2004 Toei remake of the Dan Oniroku story starring Sugimoto Aya, with rope work by Arisue Gō, followed by three more Toei films.
Flower and Snake (Hana to Hebi) is a 2004 Japanese film written and directed by Ishii Takashi and released by Toei on March 13, 2004. Sugimoto Aya plays Tōyama Shizuko, with Ishibashi Renji and Nomura Hironobu; the running time is 115 minutes.
English Wikipedia presents it as a remake of Konuma Masaru’s 1974 Nikkatsu film, itself adapted from Dan Oniroku’s novel, and notes that Sugimoto worked closely with the rope artist Arisue Gō. The same article cites Jasper Sharp’s history of Japanese adult cinema, Behind the Pink Curtain, which calls the film a watershed in the history of Japanese film censorship.
The remake started a new series. Japanese Wikipedia lists Flower and Snake 2: Paris/Shizuko (2005), again directed by Ishii with Sugimoto, Flower and Snake 3 (2010), directed by Narita Yūsuke and unconnected to the first two despite its number, and Flower and Snake Zero (2014), which it describes as closer to Dan’s original. It gives Toei Video as the releasing company for all four and notes that every film in the franchise is rated for adults.