Madame Butterfly

Year: 1932

Runtime: 86 mins

Language: English

Director: Marion Gering

Drama

During shore leave in Japan, Pinkerton marries the young geisha Cho‑Cho San. After he departs, she preserves his Japanese home exactly as he left it. Three years later he returns, now remarried in America, and tells her their relationship is over. She has given birth to his child, sends the baby to her family, and, devastated, ends her own life.

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