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Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
Directed by Jiang Wen
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?
Rated NR | Length 139 minutes
Actors
Jiang Wen | Jiang Hong-Bo | Teruyuki Kagawa | David Ng | Ding Yuan | Zhijun Cong | Congxi Li | Haibin Li | Kenya Sawada | Weidong Cai | Lianmei Chen | Yoshimoto Miyaji | Qiang Chen | Shu Chen | Jianquan Shi | Katsuhiro Nagano | Ryosuke Uomi | Yunshen Bai | Haizhao Zhou | Haidong Xu | Shiru Du | Youren He | Yihe Wang | Junji Kajioka | Masayuki Yamada | Yuta Ishiyama | Yayoi Inoue | Eri Kitahara | Mirei Nakahara | Tomoko Itaya | Etsuko Morita | Mineko Kokaji | Shu Ping | Hu Jiang | James W. Mayfield | Abram Sauer | Jincai Jiang | Mamoru Yamada | Yoshimoto Inoue | Daisaku Uchino | Makoto Shibazaki | Junichi Kajioka