Kiju Yoshida rencontre Madame Butterfly

A film director closely associated with the Japanese New Wave, Kiju Yoshida, a world famous designer, Yohji Yamamoto, an international architect, Arata Isozaki, a photographer for the lighting, Keiichi Tahara, and Kent Nagano, an orchestra conductor unconfined by a cumbersome lyric tradition... Who better than this Japanese team to break with the traditional mawkish, turn-of-the-century staging of Madame Butterfly and restore all its pristine emotional strength to Puccini's music ?
"An American comes to Japan and has his pleasure with a young Japanese woman. If we content" ourselves with this reading of the story it remains a mere melodrama, stranded at the level of anachronism", explains Kiju Yoshida. "We must forget the anecdote and re-read the story as the portrayal of a myth which exists just as much in Japan as it does in the West : the young woman seduced and deserted ".