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.

Genres

Cast

Aoi Miyazaki

Ito Cho

Atsushi Ito

Tanigawa Isaku

Keiko Toda

Matsu

Rie Tomosaka

Miura Kinu

Ryo Iwamatsu

Ohta Kisaburo

Yumiko Takahashi

Otaka

Kaoru Okunuki

Ito Yae

Toru Kazama

Miura Kanji

Patrick Harlan

surgeon

Jay Kabira

Joe Franklin

Satomi Achiwa

Tome

Kenichi Yajima

Goda Hanbee