Paul Biensfeldt
Daimyo Tokuyawa
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Harakiri, or Madame Butterfly, is a German 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was one of the first Japanese -themed films depicting Japanese culture. The film was originally released in the United States and other countries as Madame Butterfly because of the source material on which it is based and which also inspired ...
- Weimar Republic
- Erich Pommer
Harakiri: Directed by Fritz Lang. With Paul Biensfeldt, Lil Dagover, Georg John, Meinhart Maur. The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden.
- (794)
- Drama
- Fritz Lang
- 1920-12-06
Synopsis. The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife. Cast. Crew.
- (662)
- Fritz Lang
The Buddah priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priest at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks, if he was in Europe, that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denuciated and has to comit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him but after a few months he has to return to Europe.
- Fritz Lang
- Lil Dagover
This is the fourth film directed by Fritz Lang. It is an adaptation of Puccini's opera "Madame Butterfly" which was performed for the first time at La Scala in Milan in 1904, only 15 years before Lang's film. Madame Butterfly's libretto, written by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica was inspired by the eponymous short story by John Luther Long ...
Synopsis. The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
John Luther Long. Writer. The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to come back for her and his new child, but when he comes back to Japan, he brings his European wife.
