Hong Kong-based distributors Panorama are set to release controversial Japanese director Kôji Wakamatsu's (United Red Army) latest film Caterpillar (2010), starring Shinobu Terajima, Keigo Kasuya, and Emi Masuda. Last year, the film won Silver Bear Award for Best Actress (Shinobu Terajima) at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Set during the Second Sino-Japanese War and based on a banned 1929 horror-fantasy story by writer Edogawa Rampo, Caterpillar is a powerful indictment of Japanese right-wing militarism and male domination.