Wandering Ginza Butterfly

6.6

86m

1972

Action, Thriller

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.

Starring

Meiko Kaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Akiko Koyama, Mieko Aoyagi, Flower Meg, Tomiko Ishii, Yayoi Watanabe, Chie Kobayashi, Rieko Maruyama, Kayako Sono

Directed By

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi