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?
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Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan
Jiang Hongbo
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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
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Telephone Line Layers
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Director, Screenplay, Story, Producer
Shi Jianquan
Writer, Production Design
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Shu Ping
Screenplay, Story
You Fengwei
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Dong Ping
Executive Producer
Zheng Quangang
Executive Producer
Liu Xiaodian
Producer
Liu Xiangdong
Producer
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
Folmer Wiesinger
Editor
Yifan Zhang
Editor
Shiyun Tang
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