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.
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
April 1, 1972
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Meiko Kaji
Nami
Tsunehiko Watase
Ryûji
Akiko Koyama
Kayo
Mieko Aoyagi
Saeko
Flower Meg
Yuka
Tomiko Ishii
Kyôko
Yayoi Watanabe
N/A
Chie Kobayashi
N/A
Rieko Maruyama
N/A
Kayako Sono
N/A
Tōru Yuri
N/A
Shun Ueda
N/A
Keiichi Kitagawa
N/A
Matasaburô Niwa
N/A
Gen Shimizu
N/A
Kôji Nanbara
N/A
Hiroshi Itsuki
N/A
Tatsuo Umemiya
N/A
Takeshige Hatanaka
Ôwada's Henchman
Rena Ichinose
Female Prisoner
Yoshiko Iwamoto
Mari
Seiya Satō
N/A
Haruo Tanaka
N/A
Tatsuya Kameyama
N/A
Gōzō Sōma
N/A
Iwao Dan
N/A
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Director
Isao Matsumoto
Screenplay
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Screenplay
Kineo Yoshimine
Producer
Toshiaki Tsushima
Original Music Composer
Kenzo Inoue
Sound Recordist
Hiroshi Kitagawa
Art Direction
Hanjirō Nakazawa
Director of Photography
Mamoru Inôe
Makeup Artist
Yoshiki Nagasawa
Editor
Hideo Motomochi
Lighting Technician