The read
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do. Scores higher than 97% of the 3,247 2000s drama movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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?
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes92%
Metacritic70/100
Audiences rate it 12 points higher than critics do.
195 audience votes
Key crew
- Jiang WenDirector
- Jiang WenScreenplay
- Haiying LiWriter
- Shi JianquanWriter
- Shu PingScreenplay
- You FengweiScreenplay
Cast
- Jiang WenMa Dasan
- Jiang HongboYu'er
- Teruyuki KagawaKosaburo Hanaya
- David WuMajor Gao
- Yuan DingDong Hanchen
- Cong ZhijunGrandfather
- Li CongxiLiu Wang
- Li HaibinMe
- Kenya SawadaInokichi Sakatsuka
- Chen ShuQiye
- Cai WeidongEr Bozi
- Chen LianmeiAunt
Stills
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Themes
world war iijapanese occupation of china
The Best Movies of 2001
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