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
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