The Butterfly Lovers Where to Watch Online

Ready to press play on 'The Butterfly Lovers' right from your couch? Finding a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or view the Ming Chin Tsai-directed movie via subscription can be difficult, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

We've listed a number of streaming and cable services - including rental, purchase, and subscription options - along with the availability of 'The Butterfly Lovers' on each platform when they are available. Now, before we get into the various whats and wheres of how you can watch 'The Butterfly Lovers' right now, here are some finer points 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, and a scheduled release date of .

It received a user score of 80/100 on TMDb, which assembled reviews from 5 respected users.

Need a quick rundown of the movie? 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." .