Swallowtail (film) Swallowtail (film) Swallowtail, also known as Swallowtail Butterfly (スワロウテイル "Suwarōteiru"), is a 1996 Japanese crime film directed by Shunji Iwai, starring Hiroshi Mikami, pop-singer Chara, and Ayumi Ito. The film was shot on hand-held cameras using jump cuts and other visual techniques. It covers a wide array of themes and genres, from social realism to coming-of-age to crime. A theme song for the film under "Yen Town Band", titled "Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", gained first place on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart of October 7, 1996. The film is set in Tokyo at an unspecified point in the near
Holdrian comma Holdrian comma In music theory and musical tuning the Holdrian comma, also called Holder's comma, and sometimes the Arabian comma, is a small musical interval of approximately 22.6415 cents, equal to one step of 53 equal temperament, or formula_1 (). The name comma is misleading, since this interval is an irrational number and does not describe the compromise between intervals of any tuning system; it assumes this name because it is an approximation of the syntonic comma (21.51 cents)(), which was widely used as a measurement of tuning in William Holder's time. The origin of Holder's comma resides in the