Devils on the Doorstep
26/10/2001
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?
Movie Information
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
Cong Zhijun
as Grandfather
Li Congxi
as Liu Wang
Li Haibin
as Me
Kenya Sawada
as Inokichi Sakatsuka
Cai Weidong
as Er Bozi
Chen Lianmei
as Aunt
Yoshimoto Miyaji
as Koji Nonomura
Chen Qiang
as Lone-Stroke Liu
Shu Chen
as Qiye
Jianquan Shi
as Brother-in-law
Katsuhiro Nagano
as Telephone Line Layers
Ryosuke Uomi
as Telephone Line Layers
Yunshen Bai
as Liu Wang's Father
Haizhao Zhou
as Little Thresher Yu'er's son
Haidong Xu
as De'rtou
Shiru Du
as De'rtou's Father
Youren He
as Drum Singer
Yihe Wang
as Drum Singer
Junji Kajioka
as Japanese Officer
Masayuki Yamada
as Japanese Officer
Yuta Ishiyama
as Japanese Officer
Yayoi Inoue
as Japanese prostitute
Eri Kitahara
as Japanese prostitute
Mirei Nakahara
as Japanese prostitute
Tomoko Itaya
as Japanese prostitute
Etsuko Morita
as Japanese prostitute
Mineko Kokaji
as Japanese prostitute
Shu Ping
as KMT Army Officer
Hu Jiang
as KMT Army Soldier
James W. Mayfield
as US Marine
Abram Sauer
as US Marine
Jincai Jiang
as Japanese dancer
Mamoru Yamada
as Japanese soldier
Yoshimoto Inoue
as Japanese soldier
Daisaku Uchino
as Japanese soldier
Makoto Shibazaki
as Japanese soldier
Junichi Kajioka
as Japanese sergeant (uncredited)
