- Peter Weir passed on the chance to direct.
- The Chinese opera being performed by Song near the beginning is called "Gui Fei Zui Jiu", aka "The Drunken Concubine", aka "Yang Gui Fei Gets Tipsy".
- The original Broadway production of "M. Butterfly" by David Henry Hwang opened on March 20, 1988 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre, ran for 777 performances, won the 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and was nominated for the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
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- SPOILER: Based on the true story of Bernard Boursicot, a clerk working for the French Embassy in Beijing, and Shi Pei Pu, a Chinese opera singer, who told Boursicot that he was a woman pretending to be a man.
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