Purple Butterfly (Chinese) 2003, Synopsis / Plot and Trailer

Aka: Zi hudie
Year: 2003
Directed: Ye Lou
Genre: Drama/History/War
Runtime: 127 min
Country: China
Language: Chinese
Subtitles: English
Cast: Ziyi Zhang, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura, Bingbing Li, Kin Ei
Imdb: Zi hudie

Synopsis / Plot

Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami (Toru Nakamura), a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service.

Devastated, she 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 to Ding Hui and joins a secret resistance group code-named “Purple Butterfly”…the same group that, years later, will plot to assassinate her lover.

Ding Hui (Zhang Ziyi) is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami (Nakamura Tooru), an ex-lover…and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.

Purple Butterfly: Trailer