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Swallowtail Butterfly

1996·148 min

Swallowtail Butterfly

Directed by Shunji Iwai

DramaCrimeMusicScience Fiction

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

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Ryou Ryanki

Glico

Feihong

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Takeshi Kobayashi

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Kazutoshi Wadakura

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Swallowtail Butterfly (1996) is about the struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

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Shunji Iwai directed Swallowtail Butterfly (1996).

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