Devils on the Doorstep
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- Movie: Devils on the Doorstep
- Chinese: 鬼子来了 (Guizi lai le)
- Director: Wen Jiang
- Writer: Wen Jiang, Ping Shu, Fengwei You, Haiying Li, Xing Liu
- Producer: Ping Dong, Wen Jiang, Quangang Zheng
- Cinematographer: Changwei Gu
- Release Date: May 12, 2000 (Cannes)
- Runtime: 139 min.
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners (a Japanese soldier & Chinese translator for the Japanese) are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners for 5 days, 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
- Wen Jiang - Ma Dasan
- Yihong Jiang - Yu'er
- Teruyuki Kagawa - Kosaburo Hanaya
- Ding Yuan - Dong Hanchen
- Zhijun Cong - Grandfather
- Zi Xi - Liu Wang
- Haibin Li - Me
- Kenya Sawada - Inokichi Sakatsuka
- Weidong Cai - Er Bozi
- Lianmei Chen - Aunt
- Yoshimoto Miyaji - Koji Nonomura
- Qiang Chen - 'One-Stroke' Liu
- David Wu - Major Gao
Film Festivals
- 2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 20 - April 5, 2011 - 20th Anniversary of Fortissimo Films
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