Devils on the Doorstep
Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.
8.2(193) 2001-10-26 139 minDramaWar
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?
DirectorJiang Wen
ScreenplayJiang Wen
WriterHaiying Li
WriterShi Jianquan
ScreenplayShu Ping
ScreenplayYou Fengwei
ProducerJiang Wen
ProducerLiu Xiaodian
Cast & characters
Jiang Wen
as Ma Dasan
Jiang Hongbo
as Yu'er
Teruyuki Kagawa
as Kosaburo Hanaya
David Wu
as Major Gao
Yuan Ding
as Dong Hanchen
Cong Zhijun
as Grandfather
Li Congxi
as Liu Wang
Li Haibin
as Me
Kenya Sawada
as Inokichi Sakatsuka
Chen Shu
as Qiye
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Cai Weidong
as Er Bozi
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Chen Lianmei
as Aunt
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Yoshimoto Miyaji
as Koji Nonomura
Chen Qiang
as Lone-Stroke Liu
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Katsuhiro Nagano
as Telephone Line Layers
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Ryosuke Uomi
as Telephone Line Layers
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Yunshen Bai
as Liu Wang's Father
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Haizhao Zhou
as Little Thresher Yu'er's son
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Haidong Xu
as De'rtou
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Shiru Du
as De'rtou's Father
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Youren He
as Drum Singer
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Yihe Wang
as Drum Singer
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Junji Kajioka
as Japanese Officer
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Masayuki Yamada
as Japanese Officer
