Kuhio Taisa | |
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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
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Distributed by | SHOWGATE INC. |
Release date
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Running time
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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.
The film was released as The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio on 10 October 2009.
At the 31st Yokohama Film Festival