Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.
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?
Directed by: Jiang Wen
Written by: Jiang Wen, Haiying Li, Shi Jianquan, Shu Ping
Music by: Cui Jian, Haiying Li, Xing Liu
Starring: Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo, Teruyuki Kagawa, David Wu, Yuan Ding, Cong Zhijun, Li Congxi, Li Haibin, Kenya Sawada, Chen Shu
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2001-10-26
Runtime: 139 minutes
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