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Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)

Name: Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 1972-04-01
Duration: 1 h 26 min
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Meiko Kaji, Tsunehiko Watase, Akiko Koyama, Mieko Aoyagi, Flower Meg

IMDb 6.71h 26mAction Thriller

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Plot Summary

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.