Purple Butterfly Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Plot

What's the story about?

Plot

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.

Foreign

Top Cast

The lead cast starring in Purple Butterfly.

• Z
  Ziyi Zhang

  The Horsemen, TMNT

• T
  Toru Nakamura

• L
  Liu Ye

  Curse of the Golden Flower, Dark Matter

• 
  Li Bingbing

  Transformers 4: Age of Extinction, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

• F
  Feng Yuangzheng

Crew Behind the Film

The Purple Butterfly behind-the-scenes crew and production team.

Director

Lou Ye

Screenwriter

Lou Ye

Producers

Wang Wei
Lou Ye

Production Details

What we know about the Purple Butterfly movie production.

Production Updates for Purple Butterfly

Dec 2004

Completed

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