Devils on the Doorstep

2001

8.2 (195)

2 hr 19 min

Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.

$20,000

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?

Top Cast

Jiang Wen as Ma Dasan

Jiang Hongbo as Yu'er

Teruyuki Kagawa as Kosaburo Hanaya

David Wu as Major Gao

Yuan Ding as Dong Hanchen

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