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Film · 2001
Devils on the Doorstep
2h 19mNRDirected by Jiang Wen
- Drama
- War
Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.
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?
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Cast
Jiang WenMa Dasan
Jiang HongboYu'er
Teruyuki KagawaKosaburo Hanaya
David WuMajor Gao
Yuan DingDong Hanchen
Cong ZhijunGrandfather
Li CongxiLiu Wang
Li HaibinMe
Kenya SawadaInokichi Sakatsuka
Chen ShuQiye- Cai WeidongEr Bozi
- Chen LianmeiAunt
Details
- Director
- Jiang Wen
- Writer
- Jiang Wen, Shu Ping, You Fengwei
- Story
- Jiang Wen, Shu Ping
- Novel
- You Fengwei
- Cinematography
- Gu Changwei
- Editor
- Folmer Wiesinger, Yifan Zhang
- Producer
- Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaodian, Liu Xiangdong
- Release
- October 26, 2001
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- French, Mandarin, Japanese
- Studio
- Huayi Brothers Advertising, Asian Union Film & Entertainment, Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning
- TMDB score
- 8.2 / 10 from 200 votes
