The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio | |
Director: | Daihachi Yoshida |
Producer: | Shuji Kakimoto |
Screenplay: | Daihachi Yoshida and Masahito Kagawa |
Story: | Kazumasa Yoshida |
Starring: | Masato Sakai Sakura Ando |
Music: | Tatsuo Kondo |
Cinematography: | Shoichi Ato |
Editing: | Kumi Okada |
Studio: | Captain Kuhio Production Partners & Monster Ultra |
Distributor: | Showgate |
Runtime: | 113 min |
Country: | Japan |
Language: | Japanese |
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 (US$1.2 million) from a number of women between the 1970s and the 1990s.[1]
The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.
At the 31st Yokohama Film Festival[2]