Devils on the Doorstep

Synopsis

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?

Trailer

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Cast

Jiang Wen

Ma Dasan

Jiang Hongbo

Yu'er

Teruyuki Kagawa

Kosaburo Hanaya

David Wu

Major Gao

Yuan Ding

Dong Hanchen

Cong Zhijun

Grandfather

Li Congxi

Liu Wang

Li Haibin

Me

Kenya Sawada

Inokichi Sakatsuka

Chen Shu

Qiye

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Cai Weidong

Er Bozi

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Chen Lianmei

Aunt

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Yoshimoto Miyaji

Koji Nonomura

Chen Qiang

Lone-Stroke Liu

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Katsuhiro Nagano

Telephone Line Layers

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Ryosuke Uomi

Telephone Line Layers

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Yunshen Bai

Liu Wang's Father

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Haizhao Zhou

Little Thresher Yu'er's son

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Haidong Xu

De'rtou

—

Shiru Du

De'rtou's Father

Crew

Art

• Shi Jianquan Production Design
• Shiyun Tang Production Design
• Cai Weidong Art Direction

Camera

• Gu Changwei Director of Photography
• Wang Min Camera Operator
• Zhao Xiaoshi Camera Operator

Crew

• Yan Geng Stunt Coordinator
• Shengui Wang Stunt Coordinator
• Yongcheng Wang Stunt Coordinator
• Fan Yu Stunt Coordinator
• Chunzhong Zhang Stunt Coordinator
• Langen Zhu Stunt Coordinator

Directing

• Jiang Wen Director
• Haiying Li Assistant Director
• Ma Wenzhong Assistant Director
• Quan Wu Assistant Director
• Yang Zhang Assistant Director
• Yijun Zhao Assistant Director

Editing

• Folmer Wiesinger Editor
• Yifan Zhang Editor

Lighting

• Jun Fu Gaffer

Production

• Dong Ping Executive Producer
• Jiang Wen Producer
• Liu Xiaodian Producer
• Liu Xiangdong Producer
• Li Congxi Line Producer
• Hua Zhang Line Producer
• Zheng Quangang Executive Producer

Sound

• Cui Jian Music
• Haiying Li Music
• Xing Liu Music
• Steve Burgess Sound Re-Recording Mixer
• James Harvey Sound Effects Editor
• Francis Ward Lindsay Foley Artist
• Ling Wu Sound Recordist

Writing

• Jiang Wen Screenplay
• Jiang Wen Story
• Haiying Li Writer
• Shi Jianquan Writer
• Shu Ping Screenplay
• Shu Ping Story
• You Fengwei Novel
• You Fengwei Screenplay

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