Details
Title: 蝶々さん
Title (romaji): Chouchou-san
Format: Tanpatsu in two parts
Genre: Drama
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast dates: 2011-Nov-19 and 2011-Nov-26
Air time: Saturday 21:00 - 22:13
Synopsis
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 (Miyazak), 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. --Tokyograph
Cast
Miyazaki Aoi as Ito Cho (Madame Butterfly)
Konishi Fu (小西風優) as young Cho
Ito Atsushi as Tanigawa Isaku
Aoki Junya (青木淳耶) as young Isaku
Noda Hideki as old Isaku
Ethan Laundry as Franklin
Toda Keiko as Matsu
Tomosaka Rie as Miura Kinu
Okunuki Kaoru as Ito Yae
Iwamatsu Ryo as Ohta Kisaburo
Takahashi Yumiko as Otaka
Kazama Toru as Miura Kanji
Patrick Harlan as a surgeon
Kabira Jay as Joe Franklin
Achiwa Satomi as Tome
Yajima Kenichi as Goda Hanbee
Dan Jiro as Yasuke
Nishida Seishiro (西田聖志郎) as a head clerk
Kurosawa Sachiko (黒澤佐知子) as Matsuo Sada
Fujii Momoe (藤井百恵) as Koharu
Kida Yukino (木田ゆきの) as Aiji
Omura Ayako as Shiragiku
Sadamatsu Naoko (定松直子) as Yatsuhashi
Tamaki Yukari (珠木ゆかり) as Kacho
Hayase Erina as Monaka
Endo Rina (遠藤璃菜) as Chiyo
Sato Yasuko (佐藤康子) as Miura Kan
Okada Naoyuki (岡田尚之) as Pinkerton
Yo Kimiko as Oko
Ikewaki Chizuru as Tanigawa Yuri
Toyoda Runa (豊田留紀) as young Yuri
Honda Hirotaro as Obayashi Genkuro
Fujimura Shiho as Ito Miwa
Nishida Toshiyuki as Obiya Soshichi
Ibu Masato
