紫蝴蝶

In 1928, Hidehiko Itami (Hiroshi Nakamura), a Japanese translator for the puppet Manchukuo, returns to Japan after leaving his Chinese lover Ding Hui (Zhang Ziyi). A few years later, he returned to Shanghai, China, but he has transformed into a senior spy. At this time, Ding Hui has become a member of the underground anti-Japanese organization, and fell in love with the leader of the organization, Xie Ming (Feng Yuanzheng)

The anti-Japanese organization plans to go to the train station to pick up the killer hired from other places to assassinate the Japanese intelligence officer Yamamoto. However, in the chaos, Situ (Liu Ye), a small employee, was mistaken for the assassin. Ding Hui killed Situ's girlfriend Yiling (Li Bingbing) in desperation. At the same time, Situ was unfortunately captured by Itami Hidehiko.

The movie "Purple Butterfly" takes the turbulent historical background as the sticking point, and takes the interweaving of love and fate as the main line, showing the war. In the era of flying, the pain and choices that people have experienced. Under the background of colonization and resistance, each character is struggling between his belief and destiny, hesitating. Ding Hui is a staunch anti-Japanese fighter. She devoted herself to the anti-Japanese struggle for her country and people without hesitation. Xie Ming is the leader of the anti-Japanese organization. He shoulders heavy responsibilities, but he also has to make choices for his own feelings and love. As a secret agent, Itami Hidehiko has a complicated identity and is entangled in his heart. Every choice means a fork in the road between life and death and the future, and every choice carries a huge price.