Purple Butterfly
Jul 04, 2003 | IMDB 6.6
127 min Watch NowWar, Drama, History
Ding Hui is a member of Purple Butterfly, a powerful resistance group in Japanese occupied Shanghai. An unexpected encounter reunites her with Itami, an ex-lover and officer with a secret police unit tasked with dismantling Purple Butterfly.
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