Meiko Kaji in a Ginza hostess catfight? The 60s exploitation cinema we DESERVE.
A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting the love, laughter, melancholy, and human drama of an iron-fisted daughter of a family of expositors who, after her father's death, disbanded her gang and moved to Tokyo by herself, where she becomes a hostess and demonstrates her natural chivalrous temperament, risking her life in the neon-lit Ginza district.
Acting
Meiko Kaji's screen presence before she became THE Meiko Kaji.
Production
Ginza neon cinematography that practically drips cheap perfume.
Director
Katsumi Nishikawa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was one of Meiko Kaji's earliest lead roles, predating her iconic 'Lady Snowblood' by four years. You can practically see her figuring out that thousand-yard stare.
The 'hostess with a heart of gold who knows martial arts' became a full-blown genre trope in 1970s Japanese exploitation cinema. This is basically the prototype.
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