Chouchou-san

Chouchou-san

Details

• Title: 蝶々さん
• Title (romaji): Chouchou-san
• Tagline: 最後の武士の娘
• Tagline (romaji): Saigo no Bushi no Musume
• Format: Tanpatsu
• Genre: Drama
• Episodes: 2
• Viewership rating: 13.4% / 10.8% (Kanto)
• Broadcast network: NHK
• Broadcast period: 2011-Nov-19 / 2011-Nov-26
• Air time: Saturday 21:00

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, 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

User/Viewer Ratings

4.50

(2 votes)

Cast

• Miyazaki Aoi as Ito Cho
  • 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 William 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 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 as young Yuri
• Honda Hirotaro as Obayashi Genkuro
• Fujimura Shiho as Ito Miwa
• Nishida Toshiyuki as Obiya Soshichi
• Ibu Masato as Chief Ijichi

Production Credits

• Original writing: Novel Chouchou-san by Ichikawa Shinichi
• Screenwriter: Ichikawa Shinichi (市川森一)
• Producer: Sano Motohiko
• Director: Shimizu Kazuhiko (清水一彦)
• Music: Muramatsu Takatsugu

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia