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?
Cast
Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan
Jiang Hongbo
Yu'er, 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
Chen Shu
Qiye
Cai Weidong
Er Bozi
Chen Lianmei
Aunt
Yoshimoto Miyaji
Koji Nonomura
Chen Qiang
Lone-Stroke Liu
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
Jiang Wen
Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
Haiying Li
Writer, Assistant Director, Music
Xing Liu
Writer, Music
Shi Jianquan
Writer, Production Design
Shu Ping
Screenplay, Story
You Fengwei
Screenplay, Novel
Folmer Wiesinger
Editor
Yifan Zhang
Editor
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
Ma Wenzhong
Assistant Director
Quan Wu
Assistant Director
Yang Zhang
Assistant Director
Yijun Zhao
Assistant Director
Dong Ping
Executive Producer
Zheng Quangang
Executive Producer
Liu Xiaodian
Producer
Liu Xiangdong
Producer
Li Congxi
Line Producer
Hua Zhang
Line Producer
Shiyun Tang
Production Design
Wang Min
Camera Operator
Zhao Xiaoshi
Camera Operator
James Harvey
Sound Effects Editor
Steve Burgess
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
Ling Wu
Sound Recordist
Francis Ward Lindsay
Foley Artist
Cui Jian
Music
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
Cai Weidong
Art Direction
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