Devils on the Doorstep

8.2
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Run time: 139 min
  • Premiere: 2001. October 26.

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?

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Jiang Wen

Ma Dasan

Teruyuki Kagawa

Kosaburo Hanaya

David Wu

Major Gao

Yuan Ding

Dong Hanchen

Cong Zhijun

Grandfather

Li Congxi

Liu Wang

Kenya Sawada

Inokichi Sakatsuka

Cai Weidong

Er Bozi

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

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)

Art

Shi Jianquan

Production Design

Shiyun Tang

Production Design

Cai Weidong

Art Direction

Camera

Gu Changwei

Director of Photography

Wang Min

Camera Operator

Zhao Xiaoshi

Camera Operator

Crew

Yan Geng

Stunt Coordinator

Shengui Wang

Stunt Coordinator

Yongcheng Wang

Stunt Coordinator

Fan Yu

Stunt Coordinator

Chunzhong Zhang

Stunt Coordinator

Langen Zhu

Stunt Coordinator

Directing

Jiang Wen

Director

Haiying Li

Assistant Director

Ma Wenzhong

Assistant Director

Quan Wu

Assistant Director

Yang Zhang

Assistant Director

Yijun Zhao

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Jun Fu

Gaffer

Production

Dong Ping

Executive Producer

Jiang Wen

Producer

Liu Xiaodian

Producer

Liu Xiangdong

Producer

Li Congxi

Line Producer

Hua Zhang

Line Producer

Zheng Quangang

Executive Producer

Sound

Cui Jian

Music

Xing Liu

Music

Steve Burgess

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

James Harvey

Sound Effects Editor

Francis Ward Lindsay

Foley Artist

Ling Wu

Sound Recordist

Writing

Jiang Wen

Screenplay

Jiang Wen

Story

Haiying Li

Writer

Xing Liu

Writer

Shu Ping

Screenplay

Shu Ping

Story

You Fengwei

Screenplay

Art

Shi Jianquan

Production Design

Shiyun Tang

Production Design

Cai Weidong

Art Direction

Camera

Gu Changwei

Director of Photography

Wang Min

Camera Operator

Zhao Xiaoshi

Camera Operator

Crew

Yan Geng

Stunt Coordinator

Shengui Wang

Stunt Coordinator

Yongcheng Wang

Stunt Coordinator

Fan Yu

Stunt Coordinator

Chunzhong Zhang

Stunt Coordinator

Langen Zhu

Stunt Coordinator

Directing

Jiang Wen

Director

Haiying Li

Assistant Director

Ma Wenzhong

Assistant Director

Quan Wu

Assistant Director

Yang Zhang

Assistant Director

Yijun Zhao

Assistant Director

Editing

Lighting

Jun Fu

Gaffer

Production

Dong Ping

Executive Producer

Jiang Wen

Producer

Liu Xiaodian

Producer

Liu Xiangdong

Producer

Li Congxi

Line Producer

Hua Zhang

Line Producer

Zheng Quangang

Executive Producer

Sound

Cui Jian

Music

Xing Liu

Music

Steve Burgess

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

James Harvey

Sound Effects Editor

Francis Ward Lindsay

Foley Artist

Ling Wu

Sound Recordist

Writing

Jiang Wen

Screenplay

Jiang Wen

Story

Haiying Li

Writer

Xing Liu

Writer

Shu Ping

Screenplay

Shu Ping

Story

You Fengwei

Screenplay