Madame Butterfly

Season 1

“The last samurai's daughter”

2011tvEnded1 Season · 2 Ep

Drama

Created by:

Network: NHK

Season aired: 2011-11-19

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.