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Caterpillar

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Original title

Kyatapirâ (Caterpillar)

Year

2010

Running time

85 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Kôji Wakamatsu

Screenwriter

Masao Adachi, Hisako Kurosawa. Story: Rampo Edogawa

Cast

Music

Sally Kubota

Cinematography

Yoshihisa Toda, Tomohiko Tsuji

Producer

Wakamatsu Production, Skhole Co.

Genre

Drama. War | Erotic. Disability. China-Japan War (II)

Movie Groups

Rampo Edogawa Adaptations

Synopsis

If there is a filmmaker who always maintains a radical tone, that’s Koji Wakamatsu. Politically–take his politically active films, from the sixties– as well as formally. Wakamatsu settles into the Second World War, when a Japanese soldier returns home, having been made a hero and devoid of his extremities following a violent fire. Converted into a sort of human caterpillar, deprived of movement and speech, it won’t be long before the man insistently asks his wife for sex. Little by little the atmosphere becomes strained, casting doubt upon the cantankerous war hero.

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Awards: 2010: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Lion Best Actress (Shinobu Terajima)

2011: Premios de la Academia Japonesa: nominated to Best Actress.

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Critics' reviews

"Claustrophobic mini-masterpiece of the Japanese antiwar tradition"

Andrew O'Hehir: Salon
"Before its spell unravels with overdone theatricality and on-the-nose flashbacks, Caterpillar succeeds as a kind of representational horror movie."

Eric Kohn: IndieWire
"The Japanese anti-war drama Caterpillar is difficult to watch. But it's directed, acted and photographed well, and it's worth seeing even if it makes you uncomfortable."

V.A. Musetto: New York Post
"It's cinema that risks blunt silliness to achieve emotional and experiential seriousness."

Eric Hynes: Village Voice

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