"Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points."
Mariko Kaga
as
Hiroyuki Nagato
Shoichi Ozawa
Fumio Watanabe
Kyū Sazanka
Rokkō Toura
Toshie Kimura
Yukio Ninagawa
Masahiko Naruse
Hōsei Komatsu
Kunie Tanaka
Takeshi Kusaka
Hiroshi Mizushima
Sumiko Sakamoto
Kazuhiko Kasai
Keisuke Tate
Eijirō Tōno
Nobutaka Masutomi
Toyoko Iwasaki
Toshiya Sugita
Koreya Senda
Kazuo Kuroki
Director
Nobuyo Horiba
Producer
Editor
Kazuo Baba
Teizō Matsumura
Original Music Composer
Tatsuo Suzuki
Director of Photography
Hiroshi Yamashita
Art Direction
Yoshio Unno
Lighting Technician
Ichirō Katō
Sound Recordist
Screenplay
Yasuo Matsukawa
Hisaya Iwasa