Purple Butterfly (2003)
Zi hu die
United by Passion. Divided by Fate.
127 min
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.
- Release date
- July 4, 2003
- Country of origin
- China
- Budget
- $1,200,000
- Box office
- $750,000
Where to watch
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Cast
- Ziyi Zhang as Cynthia
- Ye Liu as Situ (Szeto)
- Yuanzheng Feng as Xie Ming
- Tōru Nakamura as Hidehiko Itami
- Bingbing Li as Tang Yiling
- Kin Ei as Yamamoto
- Leni Lan Crazybarby as A zi
- Anlian Yao
- Kai Wang as Brother
- Ziyi Zhang as Ding Hui
- Seiichiro Hashimoto
- Wang Kai as Brother
- Felicia Pullam as Russian Prostitute
Crew
- Ye Lou · Director
- Ye Lou · Writer
- Ye Lou · Producer
- Wei Wang · Producer
- Yongde Zhu · Producer
- Jörg Lemberg · Composer
- Yu Wang · Cinematographer
- Xiaohong Chen · Editor
- Ye Lou · Editor
- Weixin Liu · Production designer