20 BDSM Movies More Provocative Than Fifty Shades Of Grey

13. Flower And Snake

You'd have to have been living under a rock your entire life to have missed the fact that the Japanese seem to like things a little kinkier than the rest of us. Even before In The Realm Of The Senses came out, Japanese cinema was starting to reflect this tendency, not least with Flower And Snake. Released in 1974, two years before Nagisa Oshima's masterpiece, Flower And Snake - along with the later Wife To Be Sacrificed - marked the beginning of the S&M Roman Porno era. This is a film entirely for enthusiasts of BDSM, and while plenty more has come since which can be considered more boundary-pushing, it still shows up Fifty Shades Of Grey for the tepid cop-out it really is.