Purple Butterfly

Purple Butterfly

127 mins | Drama, War, History | July 4, 2003

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.

Purple Butterfly

127 mins | Drama, War, History | July 4, 2003

Purple Butterfly
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.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers Lou Yi, Wild Bunch, Shanghai Film Studio, Dream Factory
Original title 紫蝴蝶
Directors Lou Ye
Writers Lou Ye

Cast

Zhang Ziyi

as Cynthia / Ding Hui

Liu Ye

as Szeto

Feng Yuanzheng

as Xie Ming

Toru Nakamura

as Hidehiko Itami

Li Bingbing

as Tang Yiling

Kin Ei

as Yamamoto

Leni Lan

as A Zi

Nick Wang

as brother