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
