The Cool Mikado
The Cool Mikado
Release: 1963-01-07
·Runtime: 81m
Music
Comedy
In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Cast
Dennis Price
as Ronald Fortescue
Yvonne Shima
Frank Olegario
Marianne Stone
as Espresso waitress (uncredited)
Frankie Howerd
as Ko-Ko Flintridge
Stubby Kaye
as Judge Herbert Mikado / Charlie Hotfleisch
Mike Winters
as Mike
Bernie Winters
as Bernie
Jacqueline Jones
as Katie Shaw
Carole Shelley
Burt Kwouk
as Art teacher (uncredited)
Michael Winner
as Aeroplane passenger (uncredited)
Tsai Chin
Kenji Takaki
Tommy Cooper
as Pooh-Bah, Private Detective
Kevin Scott
as Hank Mikado
Lionel Blair
as Nanki
Dermot Walsh
