


If we were to try to pinpoint the beginning of that image, it probably would be 1974’s Flower and Snake, in which a rich man’s wife who has refused to sleep with him is abducted and through various bondage routines trained to be a “good” wife.īased on a work by the famous erotic novelist Oniroku Dan, it inspired a whole new genre of roman porno for Nikkatsu and was remade (or at least had its title re-used) numerous times in the eighties and in the early 21 st century. If we can say there are national signatures in porn, either soft or hard-core, then the international signature for Japan is surely bondage, women tied in increasingly imaginative and implausible ways while being tortured or sexually assaulted.
