The 2004 version has been described as a "watershed moment in the history of Japanese film censorship" with "some of the most extravagant scenes of sexual cruelty and graphic nudity to be passed off as mainstream entertainment in any part of the world.
The yakuza boss Kanzō Morita has a video recording supplied by Kawada, a disgruntled former employee, that implicates Tōyama in a bribery scheme.
Tōyama brings Shizuko to a supposed masked ball, where she is kidnapped and forced into a private bondage show for the elderly yakuza chief and his twisted associates.
The setting takes place in Paris, but the plot still centers on sado-masochism with Kenichi Endō as the artist Ikegami who leads Shizuko into his shadowy world.
[6] Toei released a second sequel to this film on August 28, 2010, titled Flower and Snake 3 (花と蛇３, Hana to hebi 3), which stars Minako Komukai as Shizuko.