Madame Butterfly (1954 film) explained

Madame Butterfly
Screenplay:	Carmine Gallone Iwao Mori
Starring:	Kaoru Yachigusa Nicola Filacuridi Michiko Tanaka
Music:	Giacomo Puccini
Cinematography:	Claude Renoir
Editing:	Niccolò Lazzari
Studio:	Toho Rizzoli Films Gallone
Distributor:	Toho (Japan)
Runtime:	81 minutes
Country:	Italy Japan
Language:	Italian

Madame Butterfly (Italian: '''Madama Butterfly'''|link=no) is a 1954 musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi and Michiko Tanaka. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly which is based on David Belasco's short story of the same name.

Cast

• Kaoru Yachigusa as Madame Butterfly, sung by Orietta Moscucci^[1]
• Nicola Filacuridi as Pinkerton, sung by Giuseppe Campora
• Michiko Tanaka as Suzuki, sung by Gianna Maria Canale
• Ferdinando Lidonni as Sharpless, the Consul
• Kiyoshi Takagi as Goro, sung by Paolo Carloni
• Yoshio Kosugi as Bonze, sung by Plinio Clabassi
• Tetsu Nakamura as Yamadori, sung by Adelio Zagonara
• Josephine Corry as Kate Pinkerton

Production

Madame Butterfly was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome between October and December 1954.

Release

Madame Butterfly was distributed theatrically in Japan on 3 June 1955. It was released in the United States by I.F.E. in Italian with English subtitles on 23 April 1956. It was reissued in 1970 by Cinemation Industries.

References

Bibliography

• Book: Galbraith IV, Stuart. The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. 2008. Scarecrow Press. 978-1461673743.
• Book: Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter. 1999.

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Chiti. Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese. 1991. 213.