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A Palm Pictures Release
Purple Butterfly (2004)

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Year of U.S. Release: 2004

Starring: Ziyi Zhang, Toru Nakamura, Liu Ye, Li Bingbing, Feng Yuangzheng.

Director: Lou Ye

Screenwriter(s): Lou Ye

Producer(s): Lou Ye, Wang Wei

Distributor: Palm Pictures

Genre(s): Art, Foreign

U.S. Release Date: November 26, 2004

Rated

for strong violence and a scene of sexuality.

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Plot Summary:

Itami, a young Japanese man, falls deeply in love with Cynthia, a beautiful Chinese girl. Their brief happiness ends when he is called home for his military service and they are forced to part. Three years later, Shanghai has been unofficially occupied by Japan. Cynthia—now known as Ding Hui�is working for Purple Butterfly, a resistance group planning to assassinate Yamamoto, head of the Japanese secret service. Itami is also in Shanghai, operating as a secret agent and reporting directly to Yamamoto.

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