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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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.
Leave your thoughts about The Butterfly Murders.
| User ReviewSteve WThe year is 1979, that of the first Star Wars, in a country far, far away. But the leap in movie language orchestrated by Tsui Hark with Butterfly Murders is almost in the same league. Both fantasy, horror, mistery and... Post-apocalypse intermingle in the genre, and the defining style of its author will return many times for twenty years to come and more, in HK and beyond, from A Chinese Ghost Story to Dao to Detective Dee. A killer application in wuxia. |
| User ReviewPrivate UThis film is awesome!!! This is a quality murder mystery. Chinese style. In fact. Im gonna look for it now on the net and buy it!! |
| User ReviewFabien Kle premier tsui hark encore assez classique |
| User ReviewJojo SThe born of Hark Tsui's style. Tsui started his experiment of mixing old style Chinese sword hero story with modern high-tech since this movie. The style is further developed in his later jobs. |
| User ReviewRichard DIts hard to believe that this is Hark's first film. The complex plot rattles along at breakneck speed, and the crossing of genres is handled by a true master of film. The editing in this is ridiculously good, and thoroughly enjoyable, despite the slighlty dissapointing ending. |
| User ReviewMelissa DBilled as an example of 'new wave' Hong Kong cinema of the 1970s. Hark's first film - quality poor but worth a watch for the cinematography and fight sequences alone. |
| User ReviewJubei YHark Tsui's debut. So rough and so absurd, but still able to feel his passion on film making and wuxia novels. Cannot enjoy or understand if you don't have much knowledge about the world of wuxia. Budget seems too small, while the scale of the story is too big. Hark's keen sense against film making can be seen in how he mixes so well the two genres, wuxia action and suspense, which seem not to be a good match. It's still valuable for knowing Hark Tsui's origin. |
