Quick Facts
CreatorKazuhiko Shimizu
Years2011 · Ended
GenresDrama
TV Series
Madame Butterfly
2011· Drama
“The last samurai's daughter”
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.
2011-11-19
Episodes
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Cast & Characters
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Key Crew
DirectorKazuhiko Shimizu
ScreenplayShin'ichi Ichikawa
Original Music ComposerTakatsugu Muramatsu
Editor藤澤幹子
Full cast & crew (17 cast · 7 crew)
Details
First aired2011-11-19
StatusEnded
StudiosNHK Enterprises · NHK
LanguagesJapanese
CountriesJapan
Original languageja