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Purple Butterfly (2003)
Directed by Lou Ye
“United by Passion. Divided by Fate.”
War, Drama, History · 2h 07m
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
Cast
Zhang Ziyi
Liu Ye
Feng Yuanzheng
Toru Nakamura
Li Bingbing
Leni Lan
Yao Anlian
Wang Kai
Crew
- Director
- Lou Ye
- Screenplay
- Lou Ye
- Director of Photography
- Wang Yu
- Original Music Composer
- Jörg Lemberg
- Editor
- Lou Ye, Xiaohong Cheng
- Producer
- Zhu Yongde, Wang Wei
Details
- Original title
- 紫蝴蝶
- Release date
- 2003-07-04
- Runtime
- 2h 07m
- Genres
- War, Drama, History
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- Vietnamese, Mandarin, Japanese
- Countries
- China, Hong Kong, France
- Production
- Shanghai Film Studio, Lou Yi, Wild Bunch, Dream Factory
- Budget
- $1,200,000
- Box office
- $750,000