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.

First aired

2011-11-19

Genres

Drama

Seasons

1 (2 episodes)

Status

Ended

Directed / written by

Kazuhiko Shimizu, Shin'ichi Ichikawa