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.
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.
Contents: “The Journey” parts 1 to 4. These were bonus files from Red Stripe – a collaboration between them and Spanking Mansion or so it says on the title screens.
Sound: 2 scenes of Ruth with no sound, 3 with just music, and the 6th is natural sound/talkie. Janet (the ‘extras’ clip) is natural sound.
Source: digital files.
There are 6 scenes of Ruth in all. This lady is also known as Janet in other circles, but she refers to herself as Ruth in scene 6 (her only talkie scene here) so that is what I’m going with.
As an extra, there is one scene of a different model called Janet from Mature.NL. Here are some photos – the last one is Janet.
Custom DVDs 