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Swallowtail Butterfly (Japanese: スワロウテイル, Hepburn: Suwarōteiru, lit. ' Swallowtail ') is a 1996 Japanese crime film written, directed and edited by Shunji Iwai, starring Hiroshi Mikami, pop-singer Chara, and Ayumi Ito. The film was shot on hand-held cameras using jump cuts and other visual techniques.
Sep 14, 1996 · Swallowtail Butterfly: Directed by Shunji Iwai. With Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito, Yôsuke Eguchi. The struggles of a group of immigrant outcasts living in an alternative-future, xenophobic Japanese metropolis.
- (4.5K)
- Crime, Drama
- Shunji Iwai
- 1996-09-14
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- Shunji Iwai
- 148 min
- Ayumi Ito
In Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail Butterfly, young Ageha (Ayumi Ito) is first a caterpillar who can do little else but crawl. During the course of this 145-minute film, however, she is able to dash against her limitations and, like the butterfly, explode into a million colors.
Synopsis. After a young girl’s mother dies, she is cared for by Glico, a brassy hooker, who gives the girl the name “Ageha” (Butterfly). Ageha goes to work for a collection of oddballs who run a junkyard and salvage business.
Did you have a butterfly in a bottle today? Contained inside, was the youth that was gorgeous, the absurdist black hilarity, the memories of the friends that were made and the raw (heroic) bloodshed that rebelled.
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Swallowtail Butterfly | Rotten Tomatoes. 1996 2h 26m Drama. List. In a futuristic metropolis, young Ageha (Ayumi Ito) loses her mother, and Glico (Chara), an infamous prostitute, takes the girl...
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