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.
Cast
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
Unknown
Yasuyo Shiba
Chinese Woman 3
Ryô Mukuta
Japanese Soldier
Taneko
Yayoi
Naoko Orikasa
Toshiko
Takaaki Kaneko
Village Man 2
Crew
Kōji Wakamatsu
Director, Producer
Hisako Kurosawa
Screenplay
Izuru Deguchi
Screenplay
Shuichi Kakesu
Editor
Yoshihisa Toda
Director of Photography
Tomohiko Tsuji
Director of Photography
Orie Fukushi
Assistant Director
Eri Hanaki
Assistant Director
Sôichirô Oda
Assistant Director
Daisuke Suda
Assistant Director
Noriko Ozaki
Producer
Takahito Obinata
Line Producer
Yûsaku Mitsuwaka
Assistant Camera
Ryôji Kobayashi
Casting
Makie Miyamoto
Costume Design
Akiteru Nakada
Makeup Artist, Special Effects Makeup Artist
Yukio Kubota
Sound Designer, Sound
Takakimi Hashimoto
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Fumie Iida
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Masaru Tateishi
VFX Supervisor, Visual Effects
Kazuhiro Nishio
Visual Effects
Sally Kubota
Music
Yumi Okada
Music
Reiji Okubo
Gaffer
Rampo Edogawa
Original Story
Hiromi Nozawa
Art Direction
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