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The Butterfly Murders is a 1979 Hong Kong wuxia film directed by Tsui Hark. The film was Tsui's directorial debut. [1] It has elements of history and a murder mystery.
Jul 20, 1979 · The Butterfly Murders: Directed by Hark Tsui. With Siu-Ming Lau, Michelle Yim, Shu-Tong Wong, Kuo-Chu Chang. A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in "Martial World" enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze.
- (875)
- Action, Horror, Mystery
- Hark Tsui
- 1979-07-20
Fong Hongye ( Lau Siu-Ming) is a wandering scholar who writes of his travels to inform the populace. One journey sees him invited to Thunder Castle, where a mysterious string of murders has been taking place at the hands of butterflies.
Jun 12, 2009 · The Butterfly Murders (蝶变, pinyin: Die bian, Cantonese: Dip bin) is an 1979 Tsui Hark film film set in an unspecified time in China's past. It has elements of wuxia, history,...
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- Humanoidity
A swordplay murder mystery wuxia film, Butterfly Murders is about poisonous butterflies that are killing off martial arts warriors. A writer tries to unravel the mystery, but there's no...
- (13)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Horror
- Hark Tsui
A journalist attempting to solve a mystery in “Martial World” enlists the aid of a master fighter and a woman named Green Breeze. They go to a mysterious castle where they come across poisonous butterflies and a black-leather-clad killer. Remove Ads. Cast. Crew.
Hark’s directorial debut came in the form of this Wuxia, or martial arts epic, deeply inspired by Euro-American horror films and Spaghetti Westerns from the 1970s, a traditional swordplay adventure restructured as a murder mystery and inflected with bio-horror elements pulled from THE BIRDS.
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- Spectacle
