Wandering Ginza Butterfly
01/04/1972
1h 26m

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.
Cast


Meiko Kaji
Nami


Tsunehiko Watase
Ryûji


Akiko Koyama
Kayo
Mieko Aoyagi
Saeko


Flower Meg
Yuka


Tomiko Ishii
Kyôko


Yayoi Watanabe
Chie Kobayashi


Rieko Maruyama


Kayako Sono


Tōru Yuri


Shun Ueda
Keiichi Kitagawa


Matasaburô Niwa


Gen Shimizu


Kōji Nanbara
Hiroshi Itsuki


Tatsuo Umemiya
Takeshige Hatanaka
Ôwada's Henchman


Rena Ichinose
Female Prisoner


Yoshiko Iwamoto
Mari
Seiya Satō


Haruo Tanaka
Tatsuya Kameyama


Gōzō Sōma


Iwao Dan
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