As J has already mentioned, it contains hanging, whipping, rape, beautiful Japanese rope bondage, hot wax and even crucifixion scenes.

The story is like this; Shizuko Tohyama (Aya Sugimoto), a famous Tango dancer whose husband is a multimillionaire, is experiencing a difficult time. They love each other but are a sexless couple, and both of them are under pressure from their professional lives.

One day her husband Takayoshi (Hironobu Nomura) is visited by a group of anonymous men. They show him a film in which Takayoshi bribes a politician. The men tell the speechless young president that it was filmed and donated by a guy who he had fired. "Well let's be frank," Takayoshi says, "how much do you want". But the answer is far beyond his imagination. As a result, Shizuko is kidnapped and taken to a strange place where she is surrounded by masked "celebrities" who she is obliged to please.

After another female victim is whipped to death (as in J's review) her first show begins; "betrayal and revenge". She is overtaken by her driver/bodyguard who was also kidnapped and is forced to cooperate in the show. Then the guy who had been fired by her husband takes his revenge by raping her, while her bodyguard holds her from behind.

In the meantime Kyoko, Shizuko's female bodyguard, is also kidnapped and taken into the show. This young girl is tied, ripped off and toyed with a vibrator in front of now helplessly bound Shizuko. Shizuko is asked to obey their orders, or Kyoko will be done by Slave Master Oni-Gen (Gen the Ogre). In the meantime a tube is attached to Shizuko's mouth and she is forced to drink an amount of liquid which contains a certain kind of chemical.

After a while Shizuko is gagged and her body is restricted in a black bondage costume on a bed. Here her female bodyguard rapes her in order to survive.

After that Shizuko becomes the heroine of their special scenario. She is a female convict in the Edo Era. She is in elegant kimono, then ropes over it. Slave Master Oni-gen plays her torturer to make her plead guilty. After the torture session, she is given SHICHU HIKIMAWASHI penalty, that she is naked and roped on a horse. Eventually she is removed from the horse, but only to proceed to the final stage; crucifixion.

What's more? Shizuko is suspended upside-down, and Oni-Gen soak her head into water to make her conscious again, followed by an intensive whipping scene with a wet handtowel. And the story goes to a shocking finale...

I totally enjoyed the movie as a GIMPer, but I'd say it's an Erotic film with serious BDSM scenes, rather than a BDSM porn. Just as J mentioned, it features proper A-class actresses and actors. The length is 115 minutes and each BDSM scene is not very long. So I revised my opinion; Hana to Hebi may be sold world-wide in future! Yes Japan still rules BDSM!