JAPAN · 1996

Swallowtail Butterfly

Shunji Iwai
urban outcasts alternate reality survival and poverty identity and belonging youth counterculture
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Synopsis

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

Year1996
CountryJapan
DirectorShunji Iwai
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