Flower And Snake 1 to 5

This is a collection of the 1st 5 films from the Japanese “Flower and Snake” series. There are 9 in the collection altogether, but these 5 are the ‘early years’ so to speak, covering 1974 to 1987. The 4 films released in the 80’s were based on, or perhaps inspired by, the original 1974 film.

There were 4 more films (I, II, III and Zero) made starting in 2004 and ending in 2014 – I will cover these in a separate blog entry.

For a list of all 9 films on the imdb: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls031591620/

Collecting and converting these proved to be a bit of a technical challenge as I had to get my head around the multiple audio tracks that were embedded in some of the sources, and I have applied subtitles as well (these are optional on playback as you would expect with a DVD). Each DVD now has only one soundtrack – where the film had a primary soundtrack involving someone speaking Russian on top of the Japanese, I have removed this and replaced it with the Japanese original.

Anyway, here are the films (with links to imdb entries), followed by some images of the artwork I have created for the series so far.