Swallowtail Butterfly
(1996)
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Hiroshi Mikami | ... |
Feihong
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Chara | ... |
Glico
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Ayumi Ito | ... |
Ageha
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Yôsuke Eguchi | ... |
Ryou Ryanki
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Andy Hui Chi-On | ... |
Maofuu
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Atsurô Watabe | ... |
Ran
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Tomoko Yamaguchi | ... |
Shenmei
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Nene Ohtsuka | ... |
Reiko
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Suzukino
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Yoriko Dôguchi | ... |
Hoshino
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Mickey Curtis | ... |
Doctor
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Tetsu Watanabe | ... |
Yakuza boss
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Customer in club
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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. Written by sharptongue
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Country:
JapanRelease Date:
14 September 1996 (Japan) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend:
JPY 336,846,600 (Japan) (15 November 1996)Gross:
JPY 16,014,100 (Japan) (13 December 1996)Company Credits
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A post-modern adult fairytale like this cannot shows up every year and even today, when I have already seen all of Shunji Iwai's films, I still have no clue about where did this one surface. It is fairly easier to comprehend ‘love letter' or ‘April story', based on a single good idea, or maybe a little more hard work and careful planning with ‘picnic', but there is no fixed procedure to follow in order to conjure up a desperate complex like this.
The hand-held camera movements and those documentary-like jumping shoots, which make some people uncomfortable in other Iwai's film, are more balanced with montage here. Nevertheless, it is the director's favorite way of seeing this world and had been intentionally deployed just as a reflection of personal disposition but not a obligation in a drama.
Note that it is vital to have all those cool figures, even the cameos, which is a test of originality almost all pseudo-filmmakers would fall short and, on the other hand, the audiences never fail to appreciate. However, unlike his contemporary Kitano, Iwai seems have been running out of sarcastic wits ever since then, or maybe just he was too much occupied by subtle tragedy-romance receiving enormous popularity among teenagers.Despite this, he remains one of the few promising film makers in new millennium Japan.