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Devils on the Doorstep

Original title: 鬼子来了

Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.

2001 · NR · 2h 19m

Directed by Jiang Wen

8.2

TMDB audience score
200 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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 Wen
    Ma Dasan

  • Jiang Hongbo
    Yu'er

  • Teruyuki Kagawa
    Kosaburo Hanaya

  • David Wu
    Major Gao

  • Yuan Ding
    Dong Hanchen

  • Cong Zhijun
    Grandfather

  • Li Congxi
    Liu Wang

  • Li Haibin
    Me

  • Kenya Sawada
    Inokichi Sakatsuka

  • Chen Shu
    Qiye

  • Cai Weidong
    Er Bozi

  • Chen Lianmei
    Aunt

  • Yoshimoto Miyaji
    Koji Nonomura

  • Chen Qiang
    Lone-Stroke Liu

  • Katsuhiro Nagano
    Telephone Line Layers

  • Ryosuke Uomi
    Telephone Line Layers

  • Yunshen Bai
    Liu Wang's Father

  • Haizhao Zhou
    Little Thresher Yu'er's son