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Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
Directed by Jiang Wen
“Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.”
Drama, War · 2h 19m
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
Chen Shu
Crew
- Director
- Jiang Wen
- Screenplay
- Jiang Wen, Shu Ping, You Fengwei
- Writer
- Haiying Li, Shi Jianquan
- Novel
- You Fengwei
- Director of Photography
- Gu Changwei
- Editor
- Folmer Wiesinger, Yifan Zhang
- Producer
- Jiang Wen, Liu Xiaodian, Liu Xiangdong
Details
- Original title
- 鬼子来了
- Release date
- 2001-10-26
- Runtime
- 2h 19m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- ZH
- Spoken languages
- French, Mandarin, Japanese, English
- Countries
- China
- Production
- Huayi Brothers Advertising, Asian Union Film & Entertainment, Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning, CMC Xiandai Trade Co., China Film Co-Production
- Box office
- $20,000