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 , Keiko Toda , Rie Tomosaka , Ryo Iwamatsu , Yumiko Takahashi , Kaoru Okunuki , Toru Kazama , Jay Kabira , Satomi Achiwa