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.
Ito Cho
Tanigawa Isaku
William Franklin
Matsu
Miura Kinu
Ohta Kisaburo
Otaka
young Cho
Ito Yae
Miura Kanji
surgeon
Joe Franklin
Tome
Goda Hanbee
Yasuke
young Isaku
old Isaku
