

Madame Butterfly
2011-11-19 · 74 min / episode · Not rated
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.
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- NHK Enterprises, NHK
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- Japan
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- Ended
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Aoi MiyazakiIto Cho
Atsushi ItoTanigawa Isaku
Keiko TodaMatsu
Rie TomosakaMiura Kinu
Ryo IwamatsuOhta Kisaburo
Yumiko TakahashiOtaka
Kaoru OkunukiIto Yae
Toru KazamaMiura Kanji
Patrick Harlansurgeon
Jay KabiraJoe Franklin
Satomi AchiwaTome
Kenichi YajimaGoda Hanbee
Jiro DanYasuke
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