Purple Butterfly

Purple Butterfly
by Ye Lou

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Actor: Bingbing Li, T?ru Nakamura, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Ziyi Zhang
Director: Ye Lou
Brand: Butterfly
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); Vietnamese (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Palm Pictures / Umvd

Movie Reviews of Purple Butterfly

Movie Review: Poor Quality Transfer
Summary: 3 Stars

Palm Pictures DVD represents either a poor transfer, or use of degraded film stock. Therefore, if you wish to watch this moody "art" film, I would recommend you rent it from Netflix rather than waste money on this sub-par DVD reproduction.

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Summary of Purple Butterfly

Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami, a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service. A devastated Cynthia moves back to Shanghai only to witness the death of her elder brother during an attack by the Japanese extreme right. She changes her name and joins a secret resistance group code named Purple Butterfly the same group that years later will plot to assassinate Itami

Zhang Ziyi looks as beautiful as ever in Purple Butterfly, a film that takes her out of the martial-arts world of Hero and House of Flying Daggers. She plays a member of Purple Butterfly, an underground resistance group fighting against the Japanese aggression in early-1930s China. The movie's central dilemma comes when her ex-lover, a Japanese agent (Toru Nakamura), returns to Shanghai and is earmarked for assassination by Purple Butterfly. This compelling-sounding set-up is frustratingly unfulfilled, as director Ye Lou (Shuzou River) opts for an opaque brand of storytelling, in which chronology is jumbled and drama short-circuited. The film looks gorgeous, but it is close to impossible to understand what is going on at any given moment. If handsome images and dreamlike editing are enough, the movie might work for a very select group of patient viewers and Zhang Ziyi fanatics. --Robert Horton

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