The Girl from Nagasaki

The Girl from Nagasaki is a 2013 romantic musical drama film directed by Michel Comte.^[1][2] The film had its premiere as the closing night film of the 2013 Naples International Film Festival on November 9, 2013.^[3] The film later screened at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 18, 2014.^[4]

The Girl from Nagasaki
Film poster
Directed by	Michel Comte
Written by	Michel Comte Anne-Marie Mackay
Produced by	Michel Comte Ayako Yoshida Amy Filbeck
Starring	Mariko Wordell Edoardo Ponti Christopher Lee Michael Wincott Michael Nyqvist Polina Semionova Ayako Yoshida
Cinematography	Pierluigi Malavasi
Edited by	Nick Tamburri
Music by	Luigi Ceccarelli Alessandro Cipriani
Production companies	M4 Films AG Shotz Fiction Film
Release date	November 9, 2013 (2013-11-09) (Naples International Film Festival)
Running time	107 minutes
Countries	Italy Germany Japan United States
Languages	English Japanese

Plot

The film is a reworking of Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, in which the tragic heroine is obsessed with an American pilot.

Cast

• Mariko Wordell as Cho-Cho San
• Edoardo Ponti as Officer Pinkerton
• Christopher Lee as Old Officer Pinkerton
• Michael Wincott as Goro
• Michael Nyqvist as Father Lars
• Polina Semionova as Cho-Cho San's Alter Ego
• Ayako Yoshida as Suzuki
• Robert Evans as U.S. Consul
• Clemens Schick as Prince Yamadori
• Nobu Matsuhisa as Cho-Cho San's father
• Lisa Zane as Jazz singer
• Sasha Alexander as Adelaide

Reception

The Girl from Nagasaki received mixed reviews from critics. Marshall Fine in his review for Huffington Post said that the "staging is avant-garde, bloody and surreal, with elements of modern dance, classical tableaux, kabuki and opera, as well as conventional melodrama. Comte returns often to that staged version to emphasize the action or outline it in a more symbolic way."^[5] While, Dan Schindel in his review for Movie Mezzanine said that it "Feels like every derisive joke about art house cinema brought to unironic life."^[6]