Satoru Nakata

Satoru Nakata (ナカタ サトル, Nakata Satoru) is one of the 2 protagonists of Kafka on the Shore. He is an old man in his 60's who lost all mental faculties as a child and now lives alone. He finds cats for people in his spare time which leads to him going on an strange adventure involving an notorious cat killer.

Personality
Because of the Rice Bowl Hill Incident, Nakata's mental faculties and intelligence are impaired causing him to be somewhat of a simpleton and have a self depricative side where he often refers to himself as "not very bright". He lives a rather reclusive and plain life due to his disability.

In spite of this, Nakata is very kind and friendly to others and enjoys being in the company of cats and eating seafood. He also appears to dislike violence as he tends to intervene if someone gets hurt such as when Nakata summoned leeches to save a man from being beaten by gangsters.