Madame Butterfly (2011)

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.

• First Air Date: 2011-11-19
• Last Air Date: 2011-11-26
• Total Seasons: 1
• Total Episodes: 2
• Episode Runtime: 74 min.
• Network: NHK
• Director: Kazuhiko Shimizu
• Writer: Shin'ichi Ichikawa