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.
Aoi Miyazaki
Atsushi Ito
Ethan Laundry
Keiko Toda
Rie Tomosaka
Ryo Iwamatsu
Yumiko Takahashi
Konishi Fu
Kaoru Okunuki
Toru Kazama
Patrick Harlan
Jay Kabira
Satomi Achiwa
Kenichi Yajima
Jiro Dan
Junya Aoki
Hideki Noda