Overview
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.
Cast
- Aoi Miyazaki as Ito Cho
- Atsushi Ito as Tanigawa Isaku
- Ethan Laundry as William Franklin
- Keiko Toda as Matsu
- Rie Tomosaka as Miura Kinu
- Ryo Iwamatsu as Ohta Kisaburo
- Yumiko Takahashi as Otaka
- Konishi Fu as young Cho
- Kaoru Okunuki as Ito Yae
- Toru Kazama as Miura Kanji