Aoi Miyazaki
Ito Cho
Madame Butterfly (2011)
Like the opera, the story is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s. It portrays the ups and downs of a young woman known as Butterfly, who lost her parents at a young age and has become an apprentice geisha. She later meets a naval officer and gets married, though the officer intends for the marriage to last only while he is stationed in Nagasaki.
Season 1
2 episodes
NHK
148 min
74 min/ep
Nov. 19, 2011
Nov. 26, 2011, midnight
Ended
NR