Madame Butterfly (1954 film)

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Madame Butterfly

Directed by	Carmine Gallone
Screenplay by	Carmine Gallone Iwao Mori^[1]
Based on	Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini
Starring	Kaoru Yachigusa Nicola Filacuridi Michiko Tanaka
Cinematography	Claude Renoir^[1]
Edited by	Niccolò Lazzari^[1]
Music by	Giacomo Puccini^[1]
Production companies	Toho Rizzoli Films Gallone^[1]
Distributed by	Dear Film (Italy) Toho (Japan)
Release dates	1954 (1954) (Italy^{[citation needed]}) 3 June 1955 (1955-06-03) (Japan)
Running time	81 minutes^[2]
Countries	Italy Japan^[1]
Language	Italian

Madame Butterfly (Italian: Madama Butterfly) is a 1954 musical film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Kaoru Yachigusa, Nicola Filacuridi and Michiko Tanaka.^[3] 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^[4]
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.^[1]

Release

Madame Butterfly was distributed theatrically in Japan on 3 June 1955.^[1] It was released in the United States by I.F.E. in Italian with English subtitles on 23 April 1956.^[1] It was reissued in 1970 by Cinemation Industries.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Galbraith IV 2008, p. 111.
^ Galbraith IV 2008, p. 108.
^ Goble 1999, p. 291.
^ Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi (1991). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959. Gremese. p. 213.

Bibliography

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

External links

Madame Butterfly (1954) at IMDb

Films directed by Carmine Gallone

Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
The Naked Truth (1914)
Senza colpa! (1915)
Flower of Evil (1915)
The Wedding March (1915)
Sotto le tombe (1915)
Avatar (1916)
La falena (1916)
Malombra (1917)
The Thirteenth Man (1917)
La storia di un peccato (1918)
Redemption (1919)
A Doll Wife (1919)
The Sea of Naples (1919)
On with the Motley (1920)
The Faces of Love (1924)
The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
Pawns of Passion (1928)
Land Without Women (1929)
Ship in Distress (1929)
The Singing City (1930)
City of Song (1931)
My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
A Son from America (1932)
Sailor's Song (1932)
Going Gay (1933)
My Heart Calls You (1934)
Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
My Heart is Calling (1935)
Casta Diva (1935)
If It Were Not for Music (1935)
The Divine Spark (1935)
Thank You, Madame (1936)
Mother Song (1937)
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
Marionette (1939)
The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
Eternal Melodies (1940)
Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
Manon Lescaut (1940)
Beyond Love (1940)
The Secret Lover (1941)
First Love (1941)
The Two Orphans (1942)
The Queen of Navarre (1942)
Odessa in Flames (1942)
Harlem (1943)
Sad Loves (1943)
The Song of Life (1945)
Biraghin (1946)
Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
The Legend of Faust (1949)
The Force of Destiny (1950)
Night Taxi (1950)
Messalina (1951)
We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
Fatal Desire (1953)
Puccini (1953)
Madame Butterfly (1954)
House of Ricordi (1954)
Casta Diva (1954)
Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
Michel Strogoff (1956)
Tosca (1956)
Carthage in Flames (1960)
Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
La monaca di Monza (1962)

v t e Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly
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Films	Madame Butterfly (1915) Harakiri (1919 film) Le ménage moderne du Madame Butterfly (1920) The Toll of the Sea (1922) Madame Butterfly (1932) Madame Butterfly (1954) M. Butterfly (1993)
Source	"Madame Butterfly" (1898 short story) Madame Butterfly (1900 play) Madame Chrysanthème (1887 novel)
Stage	M. Butterfly (1988 play) Miss Saigon (1989 musical)
Music	"Un bel dì, vedremo" (aria) Madama Butterfly discography
Related	Madame Chrysanthème (1901 opera) El pecado de Oyuki (1975 comic) El pecado de Oyuki (1988 telenovela) Pinkerton (1996 album)

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