The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio

The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Directed by	Daihachi Yoshida
Screenplay by	Daihachi Yoshida and Masahito Kagawa
Story by	Kazumasa Yoshida
Based on	Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa by Kazumasa Yoshida
Produced by	Shuji Kakimoto
Starring	Masato Sakai Sakura Ando
Cinematography	Shoichi Ato
Edited by	Kumi Okada
Music by	Tatsuo Kondo
Production company	Captain Kuhio Production Partners & Monster Ultra
Distributed by	Showgate
Release date	October 10, 2009 (2009-10-10)
Running time	113 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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.

External links

• The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio at IMDb