The Winter Butterfly is a story about passion and love, depicting Matsunaga a samurai, as a corrupt oppressor rather than a hero. With the emergence of a new system during the Meiji period, many things changed in Japan for the sake of progress. The story told in four parts is related to the seasons of the year, which can be scorching, amenable, cold or unpredictable. All evoked by Stephen Warbeck’s beautiful and sensitive score.
Length 120 minutes
Sam Aoyama | Ikuma Isaac Fryman | Sharon Gee | Jet Harp | Seiko Higuma | Aimme Hofmann | Sherry Hwang | Emi Ikehata | Nobuo Inubushi | Julie Jei | Tomoko Kamimura | Ai Kiyono | Yumi Kurosawa | Sulinh Lafontaine | Tae Young Tarquin Lee | Sylvia Ng | Noi Noimany | Michael O'Toole | Toshiko Onizawa | Seiko Suzuki Shih | Dana Shiraki | Dean Takahashi | Nicole Takahashi | Tomas Trinidad | Tienne Vu | Tet Wada | Kevin Yamada