The Butterfly Lovers (2008 film)

The Butterfly Lovers
Official promotional poster
Directed byJingle Ma
Written byChan Po-chun
Jingle Ma
Ng Ka-keung
Yeung Sin-ling
Wong Nga-man
Produced byCatherine Hun
StarringWu Chun
Charlene Choi
Hu Ge
CinematographyChan Chi-ying
Jingle Ma
Chan Kwok-hung
Edited byKwong Chi-leung
Music byChiu Tsang-hei
Ronald Fu
Distributed byMei Ah Entertainment
Release date
  • 9 October 2008 (2008-10-09)
Running time
102 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box office$5,461,411[1]

The Butterfly Lovers (Chinese: 武俠梁祝; lit. 'Wuxia Butterfly Lovers'), also known as The Assassin's Blade or Jiandie (Chinese: 劍蝶; pinyin: Jiàndié; lit. 'Sword Butterfly'), is a 2008 Hong Kong film directed by Jingle Ma and starring Wu Chun, Charlene Choi, and Hu Ge.[2] It is based on the Chinese legend of the Butterfly Lovers, but in a wuxia setting.

  1. ^ "Butterfly Lovers". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  2. ^ Saroch, Andrew (27 February 2015). "Butterfly Lovers". Far East Films. Retrieved 27 January 2022.