| 词条 | Swallowtail Butterfly (film) |
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| name = Swallowtail | image = Swallowtail Butterfly Poster.jpg | director = Shunji Iwai | producer = Shinya Kawai | writer = Shunji Iwai | starring = Hiroshi Mikami, Chara, Ayumi Ito Yōsuke Eguchi Andy Hui Atsuro Watabe | music = Takeshi Kobayashi | cinematography = Noboru Shinoda | distributor = Kadokawa Herald | released = {{Film date|1996|9|14}} | runtime = 148 minutes | language = Japanese English Mandarin }} Swallowtail, 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.[1] 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, titled "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", gained first place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart of October 7, 1996.[2] PlotThe 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 {{nihongo|Yen Town|円都|en to}}. The Japanese natives, however, despise the nickname, and in retribution call the immigrants by the homophone {{nihongo|Yen Thieves|円盗|en tou}}, anglicised as "Yentowns" in the film's English subtitles. [3] The story centers around a sixteen-year-old girl (Ito) whose mother has just died. The girl is passed on from person to person until she is taken in by a Chinese Yentown prostitute named Glico (Chara), who names her Ageha (Japanese for swallowtail). Under Glico's care, Ageha starts a new life. The immigrant characters, who speak Japanese, English, Mandarin, or Cantonese, earn their living by committing petty crimes and engaging in prostitution. Ageha does not participate in any of these activities, but is protected by Glico and the other immigrants. The film does not make clear whether Ageha is Japanese or an Asian immigrant.[3] Eventually, due to a sudden twist of fate, the immigrants are given a chance to realize their various dreams. But in doing so, they destroy their solidarity, and have to face their problems separately. Cast
Awards
Swallowtail Butterfly was also nominated for but did not win the following awards:
References1. ^{{Cite book |last=Cazdyn |first=Eric |title=The Flash of Capital: Film and Geopolitics in Japan |location=Durham |publisher=Duke University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-8223-2912-3}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.musictvprogram.com/oricon1996.html|title=オリコンさん 1996年}} 3. ^1 {{Cite book |last=Yomota |first=Inuhiko |chapter=Stranger Than Tokyo: Space and Race in Postnational Japanese Cinema |title=Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia |editor=Jenny Kwok Wah Lau |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Temple University Press |year=2003 |isbn=1-56639-985-8}} 4. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997 |title=20th Moscow International Film Festival (1997) |accessdate=2013-03-22 |work=MIFF |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322163106/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997 |archivedate=2013-03-22 |df= }} External links
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