Wandering Ginza Butterfly

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

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