Zi hudie (2003)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Ye Lou

Writer:

Ye Lou (writer)

Release Date:

17 September 2004 (Greece)

Genre:

Drama | History | War

Plot:

Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai...

Plot Keywords:

Shanghai | Japanese | Beautiful Woman | Japan | Sino Japanese War

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Ziyi Zhang	...	Cynthia / Ding Hui (as Zhang Ziyi)
Ye Liu	...	Situ (Szeto)
Yuanzheng Feng	...	Xie Ming
Tôru Nakamura	...	Hidehiko Itami
Bingbing Li	...	Tang Yiling
Kin Ei	...	Yamamoto
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sciichiro Hashimoto

Directed by
Ye Lou

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Ye Lou		writer

Produced by
Alain de la Mata	....	executive producer
Ye Lou	....	producer
Vincent Maraval	....	executive producer
An Nai	....	co-executive producer
Jean-Louis Piel	....	executive producer
Wang Wei	....	producer
Zheng Zhong	....	co-executive producer
Wu Zhuo	....	co-executive producer
Yongde Zhu	....	producer

Original Music by
Jörg Lemberg

Cinematography by
Yu Wang

Film Editing by
Xiaohong Che
Ye Lou

Production Design by
Weixin Liu

Art Direction by
James David Goldmark

Costume Design by
Weixin Liu

Production Management
Yongling Wu	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Bing Ren	....	assistant director
Lele Xu Le	....	second assistant director
Yanjia Zhang	....	assistant director

Sound Department
Jiajin Lu	....	sound

Other crew
Nairong Ge	....	action director
Shaoming Lu	....	action director
Min Zhou	....	action director

Production Companies

• Dream Factory
• Lou Yi Ltd.
• Shanghai Film Studios
• Shanghai SFS Digital Media Co.
• Wild Bunch

Distributors

• Palm Pictures (2004) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Rosebud (2004) (Greece) (theatrical)

Also Known As:

Purple Butterfly (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

France:127 min (Cannes Film Festival) | USA:127 min

Country:

China | France

Language:

Mandarin | Japanese | Vietnamese

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA (TV rating) | Malaysia:18SG | Singapore:M18 | USA:R

Company:

Dream Factory

Soundtrack:

The Moon Of A Garden Bridge

confusing? try a 2nd view...

Many have commented on how confusing the film's plot is, and I agreed on first viewing. A second viewing, however, shows everything quite intricately and deftly and =coherently= composed. People are used to films telling them things with words, which a visual medium doesn't necessarily have to do. The images give you everything here, provided you're paying attention, which shouldn't be too much for a director to ask. The first 20 minutes play out almost like a silent movie, as Lou uses the most delicately suggestive fragments to introduce us to the star-crossed lovers Itami (Toru Nakamura) and Cynthia (Zhang Ziyi). Zhang, in my opinion, deserves every close-up she gets.