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Devils on the Doorstep
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8.2During 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?
Released: 2001-10-26139 minDir: Jiang WenDrama, WarBox office: $20,000
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
- Cong Zhijun as Grandfather
Themes
- world war ii
- japanese occupation of china
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Ratings
IMDb
8.2/10
9,208 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
92%
Metacritic
70/100
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, War
- Awards
- 7 wins & 3 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 139
- FilmAffinity ID
- 178768
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- publication date
- 2000-01-01
- title
- 鬼子来了
- review score
- 6.9/10
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2000 black comedy films2000 Chinese films2000 films2000 Japanese-language films2000 Mandarin-language filmsCensored filmsChinese black comedy filmsFilms directed by Jiang WenFilms set in HebeiGrand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) winnersObscenity controversies in filmRotten Tomatoes ID same as WikidataRotten Tomatoes template using name parameterSecond Sino-Japanese War filmsTemplate film date with 2 release dates