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Swallowtail Butterfly

Swallowtail Butterfly

1996 · 148 min · JA · 7.5 (103 votes)
Dir. Shunji Iwai · Starring Ayumi Ito, Yosuke Eguchi, Chara, Hiroshi Mikami, Andy Hui Chi-On, Atsuro Watabe · Music Takeshi Kobayashi · いわい しゅんじ Collection

“This is the story of Yentowns in Yentown.”

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

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A raw, gritty dive into the neon-drenched underbelly of Yentown. It feels like a desperate, propulsive sprint through a criminal underworld where survival is the only currency and fleeting connections are all that stand between you and oblivion.

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money launderingimmigrationmoneycounterfeitillegal prostitutionmusicalternative tokyomulticultural
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