2010 · war · drama · anti-war
Caterpillar
Directed by Kōji Wakamatsu1h 27m2010
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.
Our read: Caterpillar (2010) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive war · drama · anti-war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme war / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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