Fan CastingMadama Butterfly
The Movie 2020s
by John Luther Long
Story added by paulsantos on July 17, 2021
follows a young Japanese geisha who marries an American naval officer and is caught between clashing cultures. Japan, fiercely isolationist for centuries, had only opened to the Western world in the 1850s. Americans were fascinated by Japan and the perceived exoticness of Japanese culture. The short story became widely popular, and demonstrates an intriguing look into Japanese and American interactions at the turn of the centuryread more
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