Caterpillar
A harrowing, intimate portrait of degradation and survival in post-war Japan, where a woman is trapped in servitude to a broken man and a broken state.
The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the sexual needs of) her quadruple amputee husband, a Japanese soldier in the Second Sino-Japanese War who has been decreed a "War God" by the Emperor.
Essence
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Shinobu Terajima
Shigeko Kurokawa
Keigo Kasuya
Tadashi Kurokawa
Sabu Kawahara
The Village Chief
Maki Ishikawa
Village Chief's Wife
Go Jibiki
Military Officer 1
Arata Iura
Military Officer 2
Katsuyuki Shinohara
Kuma
Daisuke Iijima
Commander
Ichirō Ogura
Announcer (voice)
Ken Yoshizawa
Kenzo Kurokawa
Shima Onishi
Kizuo Kurokawa
Tomori Abe
Chinese Woman 1
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