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Swallowtail Butterfly is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Shunji Iwai with Hiroshi Mikami
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
Suwarōteiru
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Add to a movie listSwallowtail, also known as Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル Suwarōteiru), is a 1996 Japanese crime film directed 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. It covers a wide array of themes and genres, from social realism to coming-of-age to crime.
A theme song for the film under Yen Town Band "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)" gained No. 1 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart.
Synopsis
The film is set in Tokyo at an unspecified point in the near future when the Japanese yen has become the strongest currency in the world. This attracts an influx of immigrants, legal and illegal, to work in the city. The immigrants give the city the nickname Yen Town (円都, ien taun). The Japanese natives, however, despise the nickname, and in retribution call the immigrants by the homophone Yen Thieves (円盗, ien taun), anglicised as "Yentowns" in the film's English subtitles.Actors
Hiroshi Mikami
(Feihong)
Chara
(Glico)
Ayumi Itō
(Ageha)
Yōsuke Eguchi
(Ryou Ryanki)
Tomoko Yamaguchis
(Shenmei)
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