Kazuhiko Yamaguchi — Playwright (2)
Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972) [Movie] TMDB
銀蝶渡り鳥
director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi actor: Meiko Kaji / Tsunehiko Watase
other title: 銀蝶渡り鳥
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: She-Cat Gambler (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
銀蝶流れ者 牝猫博奕
director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi actor: Meiko Kaji / Sonny Chiba
other title: Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler / Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: The Wildcat Gambler
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor — martial arts legend Sonny Chiba — in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looking for Hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her once-hopeful childhood. But living under an assumed name, Hoshiden could stay hidden forever.