Devils on the Doorstep
2001 · directed by Jiang Wen
- Rating
- 81/100
- Hit
- yes
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 (2001), directed by Jiang Wen, rates 81/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Jiang Wen
- Jiang Hongbo
- Teruyuki Kagawa
- David Wu
- Yuan Ding
- Cong Zhijun
- Li Congxi
- Li Haibin
- Kenya Sawada
- Chen Shu
Crew
- Gu Changwei — Director of Photography
- Folmer Wiesinger — Editor
- Yifan Zhang — Editor
- Jiang Wen — Screenplay
- Shu Ping — Screenplay
- You Fengwei — Screenplay
- Haiying Li — Writer
- Shi Jianquan — Writer
More from Jiang Wen
- In the Heat of the Sun (1994) — 80/100 · hit
- Let the Bullets Fly (2010) — 74/100
- The Sun Also Rises (2007) — 74/100
- Hidden Man (2018) — 68/100
- Gone with the Bullets (2014) — 59/100
- New York, I Love You (2008) — 54/100
How these numbers work: Methodology