Wandering ginza butterfly is a 1972 japanese gangster film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi, and cowritten with isao. The special features offer an interview with director kazuhiko yamaguchi in audio that plays over some fights scenes from wandering ginza butterfly 2. The film was initially hoped to be the first in a series, but a poor box office showing, due in no small part to the glut of similar films being released at the time, limited the franchise to a single sequel, wandering ginza butterfly. Wandering ginza butterfly appeared in 1972 right when this little minibloom of female oriented action movies sliced, diced, and cried their ways onto japanese cinema.
Faca parte do filmow e avalie este filme voce tambem. In addition to its lighter tone, the films visuals are more stylized and energetic, which helps. Female demon ohyaku, the crimson bat, sister street fighter also directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi, and quick draw okatsu jumped in where pinky violence left off with storylines. As in its predecessor, this isnt exactly actionpacked. On the way she saves a young woman named hanae whos father had sold her for. On imdb tv, you can catch hollywood hits and popular tv series at no cost. I have seen meiko kaji in several films, including her lady snowblood films. Wandering ginza butterfly 2 shecat gambler trailer youtube. Wandering ginza butterfly 1972 the movie database tmdb. Intended as the first part in an ongoing series, in the vein of junko fujis red peony gambler hibotan bakuto films, wandering ginza butterfly spawned only one sequel, wandering ginza butterfly 2. Wandering ginza butterfly 2 shecat gambler dvd, 2009. This time around, nami is looking for hoshiden, the man who murdered her father and shattered her oncehopeful childhood.
Nami returns to tokyo to find the man who killed her father years ago. From wandering ginza butterfly 1972 a briefly viewed leather suit and 60s style over the knee boots including long closeups. After taking a short break to jump start the female prisoner scorpion series, meiko kaji stepped back into the role of nami, the red cherry blossom, with wandering ginza butterfly 2. The second and last film in the wandering ginza butterfly series is a bit rougher and certainly bloodier than the first one. Shecat gambler, bringing with her rising action star sonny chiba to clean up the mean streets of. Shecat gambler wildcat gambler 1972, has the more traditional revenge story. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiardhall owner, and after befriending pimp and neerdowell 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. Wandering ginza butterfly is a crime thriller starring meiko kaji as gang leader nami who returns from a three years stint in prison, after killing a rival yakuza member. Meiko returns as a hanafuda flower card player seeking her fathers murderer. Wandering ginza butterfly 1972 directed by kazuhiko. Directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi and released in 1972, wandering ginza butterfly is the story of a young woman, nami, who is released from prison after serving 3 years for killing a yakuza boss. Pink films meiko kaji reprises her role as nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this highaction series that casts a new actor martial arts legend sonny chiba in the role of namis loyal friend ryuji. In 1971 with the two wandering ginza butterfly films, actress and soon to be eternal cult icon meiko kaji made the switch from nikkatsu studios to toei. Japanese film, vintage japanese, film posters, tv series, movie tv.
Mesuneko bakuchi, in which kaji was paired with shinichi sonny chiba. Wandering ginza butterfly is a film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi with meiko kaji, tsunehiko watase, tatsuo umemiya, shun ueda. Shecat gambler, bringing with her rising action star sonny chiba to clean up the mean streets of ginza. Cult film icon meiko kaji female convict scorpion stars as a former gang leader who must fight to defend her uncles pool hall when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the business. Wandering ginza butterfly was one of those hasty projects intended as the first of a series of films that would take up the commercial slack left by junko no longer appearing in new episodes of the red peony gambler. Top villains in billiard movies golden west billiards. Wandering ginza butterfly, gincho wataridori is a 1972 japanese gangster film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi, and cowritten with isao matsumoto. The film was directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi, who cowrote it with isao matsumoto. Back in 2006, the long defunct and sorely missed panik house label announced a partnership with synapse films in which the two genre driven outfits would collaborate on the release of seven toei films. Wandering ginza butterfly is a crime thriller starring meiko kaji as gang leader nami. Once again the transfer is clean and neat, and the subtitles are once again very well done. My name is nobody western english free and full movie henry fonda hd spaghetti western duration.
Shecat gambler 1972 this followup to the first butterfly film is quite similar from a narrative perspective, but has a bit more humor thrown into the mixsome of it clever, much of it bordering on slapstick. Mesuneko bakuchi is a 1972 film, which is a sequel to wandering. Watchers 2 in this sequel to wandering ginza butterfly, nami returns to hunt down hoshiden, the man that killer her gambler father when she was a child. Wandering ginza butterfly 2 shecat gambler the asian. Shecat gambler, gets a shot in the arm with the addition of leading man sonny chiba the street fighter, who joins nami as she hunts down the man who. The first film was a very conservatively directed, bythenumbers effort with a subpar storyline focusing on pool of all things. The movie was followed with a 1972 sequel entitled gincho nagaremono. Best movies like wandering ginza butterfly bestsimilar. Tag popularity top rated top rated popular want to watch release date recently wanted date added. Wandering ginza butterfly billiards movie 8 ball on. The synapse dvd comes with the original language track in mono, no english dub but plenty of subtitles. May 21, 2009 trailer wandering ginza butterfly 1971 trigons trailers. Wandering ginza butterfly 1972 directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi.
The biggest problem is that nothing particularly happened for the first 90% of the film and the finale just wasnt enough to save it. Wandering ginza butterfly is a rambling yakuza picture, tonally all over the place veering between silly and dramatic, that primarily has two things going for it. Shecat gambler is a film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi with meiko kaji, sonny chiba, shingo yamashiro, yukie kagawa, year. Jun 04, 2011 meiko kaji wandering ginza butterfly 1972. Gang leader nami cult film legend meiko kaji kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Gincho wataridori wandering ginza butterfly wandering. Wandering ginza butterfly is a 1972 japanese gangster film directed by kazuhiko yamaguchi, and cowritten with isao matsumoto. Kaji meiko, chiba shinichi, kagawa yukie seeking revenge for the death of her father, nami is now on the hunt for hoshiden. Release dates 1 also known as aka 4 release dates japan 25 october 1972. Ross lynch fires pucks all over the place as he teaches. Here in wandering ginza butterfly, however, i was shocked by how little i cared for the movie.
Meiko kaji was born on march 24, 1947 in the kanda area of tokyo, japan. Ryu is more stammering comic relief than the typical chiba hero, though this dates from 1972. This is the third time weve featured her as a femme fatale but we actually dont know much about her, having seen only one of her movies, 1972s wandering ginza butterfly, in which she was minor support. Cult film icon meiko kaji female convict scorpion stars as a former gang leader who must fight to defend her uncles pool hall when a rival. Synapse films has rescued wandering ginza butterfly and its sequel from the nowdefunct panik house, just as they did with horrors of malformed men and snake womans curse. Wandering ginza butterfly dvd, 2009, the asian cult cinema. Shecat gambler is the follow up to wandering ginza butterfly and sees meiko kaji reprise her role as nami, with a stuttering sonny chiba thrown into the mix and at her side to shake up the crime world once more.
Starring meiko kaji, tatsuo umemiya, tsunehiko watase, koji nanbara. In retrospect, theres just no way for me to appreciate this show except with a fond nostalgia and a healthy dose of condescension. Onoff special features interview with director kazuhiko yamaguchi theatrical trailers wandering ginza butterfly wandering ginza butterfly 2. Above, a little triptych of photos featuring japanese pinku actress meg flower looking like shes had an encounter with auric goldfinger. Wandering ginza butterfly by kazuhiko yamaguchi kazuhiko. The ginza butterfly duo would be a primer between her stray cat rock youth gang films and the two series for which she would become most well known, the lady snowblood and female convict scorpion films. When she returns home, she finds a living with her uncle, who owns a pool hall and taught her to hustle. The fate of the bar lies in a game of threecushion billiards that nami must play against the yakuzas junkie henchman, third eye ryu. In the 1972 pinky violence film wandering ginza butterfly, the recentlyparoled nami must use her billiards skills to prevent the local yakuza from taking over a bar.
Nami, a young woman, is released from the prison after serving 3 years for killing a man. Theatrical trailers, a text bio of star meiko kaji, and some stills round out the package. Shecat gambler, gets a shot in the arm with the addition of leading man sonny chiba the street fighter. May 09, 2009 but after refreshing my memory of the show with the new 3disc dvd set the mod squad. On the way she saves a young woman named hanae whos father had sold her for prostitution. If anyone could equal junko, it wouldve been kaji meiko, if she werent stuffed in such bad scripts as that first episode. Shecat gambler 1972 nami played by meiko kaji returns to tokyo to find the man who killed her father years ago. Upon her release three years later, shes a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. Oct 06, 2012 intended as the first part in an ongoing series, in the vein of junko fujis red peony gambler hibotan bakuto films, wandering ginza butterfly spawned only one sequel, wandering ginza butterfly 2. Wandering ginza butterfly dvd, 2009, the asian cult. There are no other returning players and nami seems like a different character, so viewers may consider this more of a reboot than a proper sequel. Considering this sequel to wandering ginza butterfly was made only a year after the first, the difference could not be any more obvious both stylistically and for the compelling performance of meiko.
This captured a trend in japanese films in the 1970s that were becoming bloodier as the. Shecat gambler 1971 kazuhiko yamaguchi on allmovie nami meiko kaji is back, and this time the. Gincho wataridori wandering ginza butterfly wandering silver. Meiko kaji, tatsuo umemiya, tsunehiko watase, akiko koyama, tomiko ishii, koji nanbara, yayoi watanabe, mari mochida, mieko. She seeks refugee at her uncles house and, in trying to keep a low profile, gets a job at a hostess club. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free. The low budget and rushed shooting schedule robbed a lot of the fun from this, but on the. Meiko kaji reprises her role as nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this highaction series that casts a new actor martial arts legend sonny chiba in the role of namis loyal friend ryuji.
Wandering ginza butterfly 2 shecat gambler 1971 rotten. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiardhall owner, and after befriending pimp and neerdowell ryuji tsunehiko watase, she gets a job. Ryu is more stammering comic relief than the typical chiba hero, though this dates from 1972, a couple of years before his starmaking role in the street fighter. She once again takes a job at a ginza hostess club, this time so that she can be closer to the type of people that might know hoshidens whereabouts. Meiko kaji in the lead role as excon nami, and a ferocious, blistering finale, where the swords and squibs come out in style. May 19, 2009 the sequel, wandering ginza butterfly 2. In wandering ginza butterfly, gang leader nami meiko kaji kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Shecat gambler the ginza butterfly nami meiko kaji, returning to her role from the original is back in a new story that finds her on the hunt for hoshiden, the man who killed her gambler father when she was only a child. Mesuneko bakuchi is a 1972 film, which is a sequel to wandering ginza butterfly.