Movies like Swallowtail Butterfly

“Tokyo-Neon-Nocturne (1996) is a 1990s Japanese neo-noir/dystopian drama that stages an ensemble struggle for identity within a neon-lit urban arcology. It foregrounds diegetic musical performances and long-take, wide-anamorphic framing to articulate how communal rituals and underground music circuits mediate survival and social belonging. Read as a continuation and reorientation of Swallowtail Butterfly (1996), the film insists that communal identity is both cinematic engine and cultural symptom.”