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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?
Keywords
world war ii
japanese occupation of china
Casts

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)
Crews

Jiang Wen
Director

Shi Jianquan
Production Design

Gu Changwei
Director of Photography

Cui Jian
Music

Jiang Wen
Screenplay

Jiang Wen
Story
Haiying Li
Writer
Xing Liu
Writer

Shi Jianquan
Writer

Shu Ping
Screenplay

Shu Ping
Story

You Fengwei
Novel

You Fengwei
Screenplay
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
Haiying Li
Music
Xing Liu
Music
Folmer Wiesinger
Editor
Yifan Zhang
Editor
Shiyun Tang
Production Design
Cai Weidong
Art Direction
Haiying Li
Assistant Director

Ma Wenzhong
Assistant Director
Quan Wu
Assistant Director

Yang Zhang
Assistant Director
Yijun Zhao
Assistant Director
Steve Burgess
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
James Harvey
Sound Effects Editor
Francis Ward Lindsay
Foley Artist
Ling Wu
Sound Recordist
Yan Geng
Stunt Coordinator
Shengui Wang
Stunt Coordinator
Yongcheng Wang
Stunt Coordinator
Fan Yu
Stunt Coordinator
Chunzhong Zhang
Stunt Coordinator
Langen Zhu
Stunt Coordinator
Jun Fu
Gaffer
Wang Min
Camera Operator
Zhao Xiaoshi
Camera Operator
Backdrops & Posters


