Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
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?
Director:
Jiang Wen
Writers:
Jiang Wen, Shu Ping, You Fengwei.
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Jiang Wen as Ma Dasan |
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Jiang Hongbo as Yu'er |
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Teruyuki Kagawa as Kosaburo Hanaya |
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David Wu as Major Gao |
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Yuan Ding as Dong Hanchen |
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Cong Zhijun as Grandfather |
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Li Congxi as Liu Wang |
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Li Haibin as Me |
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Kenya Sawada as Inokichi Sakatsuka |
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Chen Shu as Qiye |
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Cai Weidong as Er Bozi |
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Chen Lianmei as Aunt |
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Yoshimoto Miyaji as Koji Nonomura |
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Chen Qiang as Lone-Stroke Liu |
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Katsuhiro Nagano as Telephone Line Layers |
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Ryosuke Uomi as Telephone Line Layers |
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Yunshen Bai as Liu Wang's Father |
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Haizhao Zhou as Little Thresher Yu'er's son |
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Haidong Xu as De'rtou |
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Shiru Du as De'rtou's Father |
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Youren He as Drum Singer |
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Yihe Wang as Drum Singer |
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Junji Kajioka as Japanese Officer |
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Masayuki Yamada as Japanese Officer |
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Yuta Ishiyama as Japanese Officer |
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Yayoi Inoue as Japanese prostitute |
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Eri Kitahara as Japanese prostitute |
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Mirei Nakahara as Japanese prostitute |
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Tomoko Itaya as Japanese prostitute |
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Etsuko Morita as Japanese prostitute |
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Mineko Kokaji as Japanese prostitute |
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Shu Ping as KMT Army Officer |
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Hu Jiang as KMT Army Soldier |
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James W. Mayfield as US Marine |
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Abram Sauer as US Marine |
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Jincai Jiang as Japanese dancer |
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Mamoru Yamada as Japanese soldier |
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Yoshimoto Inoue as Japanese soldier |
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Daisaku Uchino as Japanese soldier |
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Makoto Shibazaki as Japanese soldier |
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Junichi Kajioka as Japanese sergeant (uncredited) |
| Directing | Jiang Wen | Director |
| Art | Shi Jianquan | Production Design |
| Camera | Gu Changwei | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Cui Jian | Music |
| Writing | Jiang Wen | Screenplay |
| Writing | Jiang Wen | Story |
| Writing | Haiying Li | Writer |
| Writing | Shi Jianquan | Writer |
| Writing | Shu Ping | Screenplay |
| Writing | Shu Ping | Story |
| Writing | You Fengwei | Novel |
| Writing | You Fengwei | Screenplay |
| Production | Dong Ping | Executive Producer |
| Production | Jiang Wen | Producer |
| Production | Liu Xiaodian | Producer |
| Production | Liu Xiangdong | Producer |
| Production | Li Congxi | Line Producer |
| Production | Hua Zhang | Line Producer |
| Production | Zheng Quangang | Executive Producer |
| Sound | Haiying Li | Music |
| Sound | Xing Liu | Music |
| Editing | Folmer Wiesinger | Editor |
| Editing | Yifan Zhang | Editor |
| Art | Shiyun Tang | Production Design |
| Art | Cai Weidong | Art Direction |
| Directing | Haiying Li | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Ma Wenzhong | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Quan Wu | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yang Zhang | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Yijun Zhao | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Steve Burgess | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Sound | James Harvey | Sound Effects Editor |
| Sound | Francis Ward Lindsay | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Ling Wu | Sound Recordist |
| Crew | Yan Geng | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Shengui Wang | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Yongcheng Wang | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Fan Yu | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Chunzhong Zhang | Stunt Coordinator |
| Crew | Langen Zhu | Stunt Coordinator |
| Lighting | Jun Fu | Gaffer |
| Camera | Wang Min | Camera Operator |
| Camera | Zhao Xiaoshi | Camera Operator |
