Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
Overview
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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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
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| Original Language | zh |
| Popularity | 9.365 |
Directed By
Jiang Wen
Crew
Jiang Wen
Shi Jianquan
Gu Changwei
Cui Jian
Jiang Wen
Jiang Wen
Haiying Li
Xing Liu
Shi Jianquan
Shu Ping
Shu Ping
You Fengwei
You Fengwei
Dong Ping
Jiang Wen
Liu Xiaodian
Liu Xiangdong
Li Congxi
Hua Zhang
Zheng Quangang
Haiying Li
Xing Liu
Folmer Wiesinger
Yifan Zhang
Shiyun Tang
Cai Weidong
Haiying Li
Ma Wenzhong
Quan Wu
Yang Zhang
Yijun Zhao
Steve Burgess
James Harvey
Francis Ward Lindsay
Ling Wu
Yan Geng
Shengui Wang
Yongcheng Wang
Fan Yu
Chunzhong Zhang
Langen Zhu
Jun Fu
Wang Min
Zhao Xiaoshi
TOP 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
Cai Weidong
Er Bozi
Chen Lianmei
Aunt
Yoshimoto Miyaji
Koji Nonomura
Chen Qiang
Lone-Stroke Liu
Shu Chen
Qiye
Jianquan Shi
Brother-in-law
Katsuhiro Nagano
Telephone Line Layers
Ryosuke Uomi
Telephone Line Layers
Yunshen Bai
Liu Wang's Father
Haizhao Zhou
Little Thresher Yu'er's son
Haidong Xu
De'rtou
Shiru Du
De'rtou's Father
Youren He
Drum Singer
Yihe Wang
Drum Singer
Junji Kajioka
Japanese Officer
Masayuki Yamada
Japanese Officer
Yuta Ishiyama
Japanese Officer
Yayoi Inoue
Japanese prostitute
Eri Kitahara
Japanese prostitute
Mirei Nakahara
Japanese prostitute
Tomoko Itaya
Japanese prostitute
Etsuko Morita
Japanese prostitute
Mineko Kokaji
Japanese prostitute
Shu Ping
KMT Army Officer
Hu Jiang
KMT Army Soldier
James W. Mayfield
US Marine
Abram Sauer
US Marine
Jincai Jiang
Japanese dancer
Mamoru Yamada
Japanese soldier
Yoshimoto Inoue
Japanese soldier
Daisaku Uchino
Japanese soldier
Makoto Shibazaki
Japanese soldier
Junichi Kajioka
Japanese sergeant (uncredited)
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