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Ma Dasan
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Yihong Jiang | ... |
Yu'er
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Kosaburo Hanaya
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Ding Yuan | ... |
Dong Hanchen
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Zhijun Cong | ... |
Grandfather
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Zi Xi | ... |
Liu Wang
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Haibin Li | ... |
Me
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Inokichi Sakatsuka
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Weidong Cai | ... |
Er Bozi
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Lianmei Chen | ... |
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Yoshimoto Miyaji | ... |
Koji Nonomura
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Qiang Chen | ... |
'One-Stroke' Liu
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David Wu | ... |
Major Gao
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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? Written by Ken Miller <wkmiller704@yahoo.com>
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Country:
ChinaRelease Date:
14 March 2001 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Devils on the Doorstep See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$3,227 (USA) (20 December 2002)Gross:
$18,223 (USA) (21 February 2003)Company Credits
Production Co:
Asian Union Film & Entertainment, Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning, CMC Xiandai Trade Co. See more »
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After enjoying the excellent In the Heat of the Day, I really looked forward to watching this movie and had high expectation on it, and I certainly wasn't disappointed.
This movie is a tragi-comedy about the Japanese invasion of China, which of course is no laughing matter, but this movie is genuinely funny and never falls into the bad taste category because it shows you the brutality of war and how it affects the Chinese people (albeit from a different angle than one would expect).
The ending, which I am not going to give away, is excellent and I think it is the most courageous war movie ending I have ever seen. However, one thing about Jiang Wen's movies is that they are so technically interesting that it is difficult to see what his movie is about as a whole.
Anyway, I highly recommend this film.