The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio

(Redirected from Kuhio Taisa)

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 Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Directed byDaihachi Yoshida
Screenplay byDaihachi Yoshida and Masahito Kagawa
Story byKazumasa Yoshida
Based onKekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa
by Kazumasa Yoshida
Produced byShuji Kakimoto
StarringMasato Sakai
Sakura Ando
CinematographyShoichi Ato
Edited byKumi Okada
Music byTatsuo Kondo
Production
company
Captain Kuhio Production Partners & Monster Ultra
Distributed byShowgate
Release date
  • October 10, 2009 (2009-10-10)
Running time
113 min
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.

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Awards

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At the 31st Yokohama Film Festival[3]

References

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  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.
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