The read
A Balasaur Score of 58 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 6/10. It runs a compact 1h 26m.
Synopsis
Pinkerton marries Cho-Cho San in Japan, whilst on shore leave. When he leaves, she keeps his Japanese home as he left it. He returns three years later, having married again in America, and tells Cho-Cho that their affair is over. She has had a child in his absence, who is sent to her family, before she kills herself.
Ratings
IMDb6/10
21 audience votes
Key crew
- Marion GeringDirector
- Joseph Moncure MarchScreenplay
- Josephine LovettScreenplay
- W. Franke HarlingOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Sylvia SidneyCho-cho San
- Cary GrantLieutenant Pinkerton
- Charles RugglesLieutenant Barton
- Irving PichelYamadori
- Helen Jerome EddyCho-cho San's Mother
- Edmund BreeseCho-cho San's Grandfather
- Louise CarterSuzuki
- Sándor KállayGoro
- Judith VosselliMadame Goro
- Sheila TerryAdelaide
- Dorothy LibairePeach Blossom
- Berton ChurchillMr. Sharpless
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Themes
suicidegeishabased on play or musicalpromiseinterracial romancecultural differenceblack and whitepre-codeyellowface