Devils on the Doorstep
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- Runtime
- 139 mins
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
Cast
- Jiang Wen
- Jiang Hongbo
- Teruyuki Kagawa
- David Wu
- Yuan Ding
- Cong Zhijun
- Li Congxi
- Li Haibin
- Kenya Sawada
- Cai Weidong
- Chen Lianmei
- Yoshimoto Miyaji
- Chen Qiang
- Shu Chen
- Jianquan Shi
- Katsuhiro Nagano
- Ryosuke Uomi
- Yunshen Bai
- Haizhao Zhou
- Haidong Xu
- Shiru Du
- Youren He
- Yihe Wang
- Junji Kajioka
- Masayuki Yamada
- Yuta Ishiyama
- Yayoi Inoue
- Eri Kitahara
- Mirei Nakahara
- Tomoko Itaya
- Etsuko Morita
- Mineko Kokaji
- Shu Ping
- Hu Jiang
- James W. Mayfield
- Abram Sauer
- Jincai Jiang
- Mamoru Yamada
- Yoshimoto Inoue
- Daisaku Uchino
- Makoto Shibazaki
- Junichi Kajioka
Director
- Jiang Wen
Producers
- Jiang Wen
- Liu Xiaodian
- Liu Xiangdong
Screenwriter
- Jiang Wen
- Shu Ping
- You Fengwei
