
Devils on the Doorstep
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?
Devils on the Doorstep
October 26, 2001
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Cast (42)

Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan

Jiang Hongbo
Yu'er

Teruyuki Kagawa
Kosaburo Hanaya

David Wu
Major Gao

Yuan Ding
Dong Hanchen

Cong Zhijun
Grandfather

Li Congxi
Liu Wang

Li Haibin
Me

Kenya Sawada
Inokichi Sakatsuka

Cai Weidong
Er Bozi

Chen Lianmei
Aunt

Yoshimoto Miyaji
Koji Nonomura

Chen Qiang
Lone-Stroke Liu

Shu Chen
Qiye

Jianquan Shi
Brother-in-law

Katsuhiro Nagano
Telephone Line Layers

Ryosuke Uomi
Telephone Line Layers

Yunshen Bai
Liu Wang's Father

Haizhao Zhou
Little Thresher Yu'er's son

Haidong Xu
De'rtou

Shiru Du
De'rtou's Father

Youren He
Drum Singer

Yihe Wang
Drum Singer

Junji Kajioka
Japanese Officer

Masayuki Yamada
Japanese Officer

Yuta Ishiyama
Japanese Officer

Yayoi Inoue
Japanese prostitute

Eri Kitahara
Japanese prostitute

Mirei Nakahara
Japanese prostitute

Tomoko Itaya
Japanese prostitute

Etsuko Morita
Japanese prostitute

Mineko Kokaji
Japanese prostitute

Shu Ping
KMT Army Officer

Hu Jiang
KMT Army Soldier

James W. Mayfield
US Marine

Abram Sauer
US Marine

Jincai Jiang
Japanese dancer

Mamoru Yamada
Japanese soldier

Yoshimoto Inoue
Japanese soldier

Daisaku Uchino
Japanese soldier

Makoto Shibazaki
Japanese soldier

Junichi Kajioka
Japanese sergeant (uncredited)
Crew (44)
Directing

Jiang Wen
Director

Haiying Li
Assistant Director

Yang Zhang
Assistant Director

Ma Wenzhong
Assistant Director

Quan Wu
Assistant Director

Yijun Zhao
Assistant Director
Writing

Jiang Wen
Story

Jiang Wen
Screenplay

Shu Ping
Story

Shu Ping
Screenplay

Haiying Li
Writer

Shi Jianquan
Writer

Xing Liu
Writer

You Fengwei
Novel

You Fengwei
Screenplay
Production

Jiang Wen
Producer

Dong Ping
Executive Producer

Liu Xiangdong
Producer

Hua Zhang
Line Producer

Li Congxi
Line Producer

Zheng Quangang
Executive Producer

Liu Xiaodian
Producer
Sound

Haiying Li
Music

Cui Jian
Music

Steve Burgess
Sound Re-Recording Mixer

James Harvey
Sound Effects Editor

Ling Wu
Sound Recordist

Xing Liu
Music

Francis Ward Lindsay
Foley Artist
Art
Camera
Costume & Make-Up
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Chunzhong Zhang
Stunt Coordinator

Fan Yu
Stunt Coordinator

Langen Zhu
Stunt Coordinator

Shengui Wang
Stunt Coordinator

Yan Geng
Stunt Coordinator

Yongcheng Wang
Stunt Coordinator
Editing

Yifan Zhang
Editor

Folmer Wiesinger
Editor
Lighting

Jun Fu
Gaffer