Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler

Original title: Gincho nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi

1972
1h 26m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

204

YOUR RATING

Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler (1972)

Action Crime

Nami (played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae whose father had sold her for prostitution, bu... Read allNami (played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae whose father had sold her for prostitution, but by doing this noble thing she becomes involved with Yakuza gang who doesn't want to let ... Read allNami (played by Meiko Kaji) returns to Tokyo to find the man who killed her father 13 years ago. On the way she saves a young woman named Hanae whose father had sold her for prostitution, but by doing this noble thing she becomes involved with Yakuza gang who doesn't want to let their property go and wants to keep a tight control over the Ginza district. With the help... Read all

Director
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Writers
- Isao Matsumoto
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

204

YOUR RATING

Director
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Writers
- Isao Matsumoto
- Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
GINJO series. #2 of 2 films.

Connections
Featured in Butterfly and Scorpion: An Appreciation of Meiko Kaji (2009)

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Review

Featured review

5/10

Worse than the first

So, Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2 has an even better title than the first movie (released the same year), as the full title for this sequel is Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler. It also has Sonny Chiba in it this time around, but the improved title and cast didn't make it a better movie at all.

The plot is still muddled and happy to jump over the place wildly. Even the individual scenes here didn't tend to make a ton of sense. Whereas that first movie felt a bit sloppy, this one just feels like no one really tried when it came to writing or structure.

Speaking of structure, this follows the same beats as the first to a ridiculous extent, and even has its sole action sequence (like neither could feature anymore?) right at the end. And again, that brief burst of action is the best part, but it's not even as cool as the showdown in the first movie.

This felt pretty lazily made, I'll have to be honest. There's some competency to it all that makes it feel watchable, but it was kind of a drag for large parts of the runtime, sadly.