Kuhio Taisa

Kuhio Taisa
Directed by	Daihachi Yoshida
Produced by	Shuji Kakimoto
Screenplay by	Daihachi Yoshida and Masahito Kagawa
Story by	Kazumasa Yoshida
Based on	Marriage Swindler: Captain Kuhio
Starring	Masato Sakai Sakura Ando
Music by	Tatsuo Kondo
Cinematography	Shoichi Ato
Edited by	Kumi Okada
Production company	Captain Kuhio Production Partners & Monster Ultra
Distributed by	SHOWGATE INC.
Release dates	October 10, 2009
Running time	113 min
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

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

The film was released as The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio 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^[2]

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

References

1. "Masato Sakai stars in film based on real-life marriage swindler". Tokyograph.
2. 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 2010-12-13.

External links

• Kuhio Taisa at the Internet Movie Database