
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.

as Ito Cho

as Tanigawa Isaku

as William Franklin

as Matsu

as Miura Kinu

as Ohta Kisaburo

as Otaka

as young Cho

as Ito Yae

as Miura Kanji

as surgeon

as Joe Franklin

as Tome

as Goda Hanbee

as Yasuke

as young Isaku

as old Isaku