Played by Chinese superstar Zhang Ziyi (RUSH HOUR 2, CROUCHING TIGER HIDDEN DRAGON, HERO), Cynthia is a young Chinese woman in love with Itami (Toru Nakamura), a Japanese man about to be sent home for military service. A devastated Cynthia moved back to Shanghai only to witness the death of her elder brother during an attack by the Japanese extreme right. She changes her name to Ding Hui and joins a secret resistance group code-named Purple Butterfly... the same group that, years later, will plot to assassinate her lover
