Caterpillar (2010)
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.
Director:
Kōji Wakamatsu
Writers:
Hisako Kurosawa, Izuru Deguchi.
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Shinobu Terajima as Shigeko Kurokawa |
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Keigo Kasuya as Tadashi Kurokawa |
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Sabu Kawahara as The Village Chief |
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Maki Ishikawa as Village Chief's Wife |
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Go Jibiki as Military Officer 1 |
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Arata Iura as Military Officer 2 |
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Katsuyuki Shinohara as Kuma |
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Daisuke Iijima as Commander |
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Ichirō Ogura as Announcer (voice) |
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Ken Yoshizawa as Kenzo Kurokawa |
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Shima Onishi as Kizuo Kurokawa |
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Tomori Abe as Chinese Woman 1 |
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Mariko Terada as Chinese Woman 2 |
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Emi Masuda as Chiyo Kurokawa |
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Sanshirô Kobayashi as Village man #1 |
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Ken Furusawa as |
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Yasuyo Shiba as Chinese Woman 3 |
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Ryô Mukuta as Japanese Soldier |
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Taneko as Yayoi |
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Naoko Orikasa as Toshiko |
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Takaaki Kaneko as Village Man 2 |
| Directing | Kōji Wakamatsu | Director |
| Writing | Hisako Kurosawa | Screenplay |
| Production | Kōji Wakamatsu | Producer |
| Writing | Rampo Edogawa | Original Story |
| Writing | Izuru Deguchi | Screenplay |
| Camera | Yoshihisa Toda | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Sally Kubota | Music |
| Production | Noriko Ozaki | Producer |
| Camera | Tomohiko Tsuji | Director of Photography |
| Art | Hiromi Nozawa | Art Direction |
| Editing | Shuichi Kakesu | Editor |
| Sound | Yukio Kubota | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Yumi Okada | Music |
| Costume & Make-Up | Makie Miyamoto | Costume Design |
| Production | Takahito Obinata | Line Producer |
| Visual Effects | Masaru Tateishi | VFX Supervisor |
| Production | Ryôji Kobayashi | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Akiteru Nakada | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Orie Fukushi | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Eri Hanaki | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Sôichirô Oda | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Daisuke Suda | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Yukio Kubota | Sound |
| Costume & Make-Up | Takakimi Hashimoto | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fumie Iida | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Akiteru Nakada | Special Effects Makeup Artist |
| Visual Effects | Kazuhiro Nishio | Visual Effects |
| Visual Effects | Masaru Tateishi | Visual Effects |
| Camera | Yûsaku Mitsuwaka | Assistant Camera |
| Lighting | Reiji Okubo | Gaffer |