Overview
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 as Ma Dasan
- Jiang Hongbo as Yu'er
- Teruyuki Kagawa as Kosaburo Hanaya
- David Wu as Major Gao
- Yuan Ding as Dong Hanchen
- Cong Zhijun as Grandfather
- Li Congxi as Liu Wang
- Li Haibin as Me
- Kenya Sawada as Inokichi Sakatsuka
- Chen Shu as Qiye