Purple Butterfly
Zi hu die
2003, Film, 127 min, Drama, History, War, Chinese, China, MoviePedia score 65
United by Passion. Divided by Fate.
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.
Directed by Ye Lou
Cast
- Ziyi Zhang as Ding Hui
- Tōru Nakamura as Hidehiko Itami
- Ye Liu as Situ (Szeto)
- Yuanzheng Feng as Xie Ming
- Bingbing Li as Tang Yiling
- Kin Ei as Yamamoto
- Leni Lan Crazybarby as A zi
- Seiichiro Hashimoto
- Wang Kai as Brother
- Felicia Pullam as Russian Prostitute
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