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The world's greatest detective, Ippei Kuroda, is hired by a politician to find his estranged daughter. When the daughter is found dead, the mystery deepens. Meanwhile, Kuroda's assistant tries to stop her arranged marriage to a country hick by shacking-up with a composer who writes symphonies on his pocket calculator when he's not groping women on the Tokyo trains! An early film directed by Japanese Academy Award winner, Yojiro Takita (Departures, 2008).
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Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (1984)
67 min
The world’s greatest detective, Ippei Kuroda, is back and this time hired by a politician to find his estranged daughter. When the daughter is found dead, the mystery deepens. Meanwhile, Kuroda’s assistant tries to stop her arranged marriage to a country hick by shacking-up with a composer who writes symphonies on his calculator — when he’s not groping women on the Tokyo trains!