Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Zhang ZiyiCynthia / Ding Hui
- Liu YeSzeto
- Feng YuanzhengXie Ming
- Toru NakamuraHidehiko Itami
- Li BingbingTang Yiling
- Kin EiYamamoto
- Leni LanAh Zi
- Yao Anlian
- Nick WangBrother
Recommandations
- 100
San Francisco Chronicle
A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic. - 100
San Francisco Chronicle
A gorgeously shot, ambitious epic. - 90
Los Angeles Times
As atmospheric and moody as a film noir, the stylish, sometimes perplexing Purple Butterfly is a remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s - 90
Los Angeles Times
As atmospheric and moody as a film noir, the stylish, sometimes perplexing Purple Butterfly is a remarkable period piece, evoking the bustling, dense and increasingly dangerous Shanghai of the '30s - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Lou synthesizes a wide range of styles and influences - from "Casablanca" to Wong Kar-wai - resulting in a movie that, for all its haunting strangeness, seems curiously familiar. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Hectic, lyrical, swooningly romantic and almost unwatchably brutal, Purple Butterfly deploys a modern Asian gangster-movie aesthetic to tell a love story of Shakespearean dimensions. - 80
The New York Times
Mr. Lou synthesizes a wide range of styles and influences - from "Casablanca" to Wong Kar-wai - resulting in a movie that, for all its haunting strangeness, seems curiously familiar. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Hectic, lyrical, swooningly romantic and almost unwatchably brutal, Purple Butterfly deploys a modern Asian gangster-movie aesthetic to tell a love story of Shakespearean dimensions.
