Wandering Ginza Butterfly
1972 · 86 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 334 VOTES · DIR. Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,073 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:06 TOEI
00:03:00 But nobody has ever seen my tears TSUNEHIKO WATASE
00:07:38 I wouldn't hang around in Ginza if I was scared of the Owadas.
00:10:43 Hi, Ryu.
00:13:15 CLUB BRONCHO
00:15:56 You're back.
00:18:33 I've always been that way.
00:21:40 I'll pay it off!
00:24:38 Well then. Allow me.
00:27:38 Okay.
00:30:10 You're a hard man to ffnd.
00:33:13 Is that a good deal or what?
00:35:47 Many people end up here in Ginza. Lots of them fell between the cracks.
00:38:48 Guys, is something wrong?
00:42:37 There's Yajima.
00:46:08 I know you're his friend.
00:50:12 You have until the end of the month.
00:53:20 Don't touch me.
00:56:33 You want to settle the debt with this?
01:04:15 Now the mirror?
01:10:25 Madam, please sign this conveyance deed.
01:13:28 About us being married.
01:18:11 There she is.
25:00:00 and 250 madams in Ginza alone.