
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.
Storyline
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.
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
Kôji 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
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
7.1Yakuza Graveyard
6.5Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
8.0Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
7.2A Chinese Ghost Story II
6.7Firefighters
5.8Mr. Mom
6.6Flirting Scholar
7.4Bed and Board
7.2Dr. Phibes Rises Again
6.3Beyond
7.2Monsieur Hire
7.3The God of Cookery
7.2A Chinese Ghost Story III
6.4Mantra Warrior: The Legend of The Eight Moons
7.5A Boy Called Po
6.8Still Life
7.2Mutiny on the Buses
7.4Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.3Kinds of Kindness
6.6