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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
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- comedy film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- Chinese
- Director
- Jiang Wen
- Cast member
- Jiang Wen
- Composer
- Cui Jian
- Cinematographer
- Gu Changwei
- Narrative location
- Hebei
- Duration
- 139
- FilmAffinity ID
- 178768
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 2000-01-01
- title
- 鬼子来了
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- review score
- 6.9/10
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