Skip to main content
Filmarian
All films
Poster for Devils on the Doorstep
Sign in to rateBe the first to rate
+ write a review
Released
2001 · FILM

Devils on the Doorstep

Comedy to carnage, in one remote village.

Directed by
Runtime
139 min
Language
ZH
ComedyDramaWar

Synopsis

During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are left at a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is pressured into housing the prisoners until the next New Year, when they are to be picked up. The village leaders gather to question the prisoners, and the townspeople face the challenge of accommodating them. One prisoner is an aggressive Japanese nationalist, while the other is a jittery translator. The question remains whether the townspeople will succeed in keeping the prisoners until the New Year.

Related titles

No curated related titles yet. Use the edit affordance to add "More from this director", "Same franchise", or "Adaptation source material" entries — every change goes through the wiki review queue.

How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 20

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Folmer WiesingerShot by Changwei GuScored by Jian CuiDesigned by Jianquan Shi

Also known as

  • Devils on the Doorstepde
  • Devils on the Doorstepen
  • Los demonios en mi puertaes
  • Les Démons à ma portefr

Community tags

Be the first to tag this page — tags appear right away. Try a theme, capability, or subject (e.g. WWII, heist, slow burn, time travel, A24).

Help complete this page

We’re missing mpaa rating, logline. Sign in to add what you know.