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
