Caterpillar

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.

Drama War

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)

Mariko Terada

(Chinese Woman 2)

Emi Masuda

(Chiyo Kurokawa)

Sanshirô Kobayashi

(Village man #1)

Ken Furusawa

Yasuyo Shiba

(Chinese Woman 3)

Ryô Mukuta

(Japanese Soldier)

Taneko

(Yayoi)

Naoko Orikasa

(Toshiko)

Takaaki Kaneko

(Village Man 2)