Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
Guizi lai le
Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.
139 min
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
- Country of origin
- China
- Box office
- $20,000
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Trailer
Cast
- Wen Jiang as Ma Dasan
- Hongbo Jiang as Yu'er
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Kosaburo Hanaya
- David Wu as Major Gao
- Ding Yuan as Dong Hanchen
- Zhijun Cong as Grandfather
- Zi Xi as Liu Wang
- Haibin Li as Me
- Kenya Sawada as Inokichi Sakatsuka
- Shu Chen as Qiye
- Qiang Chen as Lone-Stroke Liu
- Weidong Cai as Er Bozi
- Lianmei Chen as Aunt
Crew
- Wen Jiang · Director
- Wen Jiang · Writer
- Haiying Li · Writer
- Xing Liu · Writer
- Jianquan Shi · Writer
- Wen Jiang · Producer
- Xiaodian Liu · Producer
- Xiaodong Liu · Producer
- Jian Cui · Composer
- Haiying Li · Composer
- Xing Liu · Composer
- Changwei Gu · Cinematographer
- Folmer Wiesinger · Editor
- Yifan Zhang · Editor
- Jianquan Shi · Production designer
- Shiyun Tang · Production designer