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Devils on the Doorstep

Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.

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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?

  • Release date
  • October 26, 2001
  • Runtime
  • 139 min
  • Genres
  • Drama, War
  • Director
  • Jiang Wen

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Jiang Wen photo Jiang Wen Ma Dasan Jiang Hongbo photo Jiang Hongbo Yu'er Teruyuki Kagawa photo Teruyuki Kagawa Kosaburo Hanaya David Wu photo David Wu Major Gao Yuan Ding photo Yuan Ding Dong Hanchen Cong Zhijun photo Cong Zhijun Grandfather Li Congxi photo Li Congxi Liu Wang Li Haibin photo Li Haibin Me

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