The Cool Mikado

Genre: Music Comedy
Run time: 81 min
Premiere: 1963. January 7.

Director: Michael Winner
Writer: Michael Winner Maurice Browning W.S. Gilbert
Starring: Frankie Howerd Stubby Kaye Mike Winters Bernie Winters

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.

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Frankie Howerd

Ko-Ko Flintridge

Stubby Kaye

Judge Herbert Mikado / Charlie Hotfleisch

Mike Winters

Mike

Bernie Winters

Bernie

Tommy Cooper

Pooh-Bah, Private Detective

Dennis Price

Ronald Fortescue

Jacqueline Jones

Katie Shaw

Kevin Scott

Hank Mikado

Jill Mai Meredith

Yum-Yum

Lionel Blair

Nanki

Pete Murray

Tsai Chin

Glen Mason

Al Mulder

Dermot Walsh

Carole Shelley

C. Denier Warren

Murray Kash

Yvonne Shima

Kenji Takaki

Frank Olegario

Burt Kwouk

Art teacher (uncredited)

Marianne Stone

Espresso waitress (uncredited)

Michael Winner

Aeroplane passenger (uncredited)

Art

Derek Barrington

Production Design

Camera

Dennis Ayling

Director of Photography

Martin Curtis

Director of Photography

Ronnie Maasz

Camera Operator

Michael Walter

Key Grip

Costume & Make-Up

Barbara Barnard

Hairstylist

Directing

Michael Winner

Director

Pat Kelly

Assistant Director

Eileen Head

Continuity

Editing

Frank Gilpin

Editor

Fred Burnley

Supervising Editor

Production

Harold Baim

Producer

Ronnie Bear

Production Manager

Sound

Jock May

Sound

John Barry

Music Arranger

Writing

Michael Winner

Screenplay

Maurice Browning

Adaptation

W.S. Gilbert

Original Story