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
Lionel Blair
as Nanki
Frank Olegario
Mike Winters
as Mike
Jacqueline Jones
as Katie Shaw
Michael Winner
as Aeroplane passenger (uncredited)
Stubby Kaye
as Judge Herbert Mikado / Charlie Hotfleisch
Tsai Chin
Dermot Walsh
Kenji Takaki
Marianne Stone
as Espresso waitress (uncredited)
Dennis Price
as Ronald Fortescue
Kevin Scott
as Hank Mikado
Carole Shelley
Yvonne Shima
Burt Kwouk
as Art teacher (uncredited)
Frankie Howerd
as Ko-Ko Flintridge
Bernie Winters
as Bernie
Tommy Cooper
as Pooh-Bah, Private Detective
