The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio

2009 Japanese film
  • October 10, 2009 (2009-10-10)
Running time
113 minCountryJapanLanguageJapanese

The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio[1] (クヒオ大佐, Kuhio Taisa, lit. "Captain Kuhio") is a 2009 Japanese comedy-crime film, directed by Daihachi Yoshida, based on Kazumasa Yoshida's 2006 biographical novel, Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa (lit. "Marriage swindler Captain Kuhio"), that focuses on a real-life marriage swindler, who conned over 100 million yen (US$1.2 million) from a number of women between the 1970s and the 1990s.[2]

The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.

Cast

  • Masato Sakai - Captain Kuhio
  • Yasuko Matsuyuki - Shinobu Nagano
  • Hikari Mitsushima - Haru Yasuoka
  • Yuko Nakamura - Michiko Sudo
  • Hirofumi Arai - Tatsuya Nagano
  • Kazuya Kojima - Koichi Takahashi
  • Sakura Ando - Rika Kinoshita
  • Masaaki Uchino - Chief Fujiwara
  • Kanji Furutachi - Shigeru Kuroda
  • Reila Aphrodite
  • Sei Ando

Awards

At the 31st Yokohama Film Festival[3]

  • Best Actor – Masato Sakai
  • Best Supporting Actress – Sakura Ando

References

  1. ^ "JFDB – The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio". UniJapan. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  2. ^ "Masato Sakai stars in film based on real-life marriage swindler". Tokyograph.
  3. ^ 第31回ヨコハマ映画祭 2009年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  • The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio at IMDb
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