Madame Butterfly

Original title: 蝶々さん

“The last samurai's daughter”

• 2011
• •
• Ended

• Drama

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.

Seasons

1

Episodes

2

Episode length

~1h 14m

First aired

Nov 19, 2011

Networks

NHK

Original language

Japanese

Origin

Japan