TV Show Details
Air Date:November 19th, 2011
Last Air Date:November 26th, 2011
Network:NHK
Status:Ended
Genres:Drama
Original Language:Japanese
Madame Butterfly on the Web:Official Website
Madame Butterfly (2011)
TV ShowNHK
Miniseries
"The last samurai's daughter"
Plot
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.