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The Butterfly Lovers

The Butterfly Lovers - Where to Watch

Audience Score
80

Can’t wait to check out 'The Butterfly Lovers' on your favorite screen? Figuring out where to stream, rent, buy, or watch where to stream or rent this film can be tricky so we at Moviefone are here to so let us take the guesswork out of it.

Here are a few important points to remember about the adventure flick. The Butterfly Lovers starring Elva Hsiao, René Liu, Jacky Wu, Chien-Chun Hsu has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 35 min. The movie received a user score of 80/100 on TMDb, which was calculated from reviews from 5 active users.

Let’s set the scene for you... Here's the plot: "An animated re-telling of the classical Chinese story of two lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai. Zhu Yingtai was a girl born into an upper-class family during China's Eastern Jin Dynasty. Since women were not allowed to attend school, she begged her family to let her go, and they consented as long as she pretended to be a young man. There she met a handsome young upper-class man named Liang Shanbo. They instantly became friends and vowed to be sworn brothers forever. Yingtai hid her real identity from "Brother Liang" through the three years they studied together at Hangzhou. Her love for him grew to consume her, and she thought of nothing else but spending all of her days with Brother Liang."

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