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?
Jiang Wen
as Ma Dasan
Hongbo Jiang
as Yu'er
香川照之
as Kosaburo Hanaya
吳大維
as Major Gao
Ding Yuan
as Dong Hanchen
Cong Zhijun
as Grandfather
Li Congxi
as Liu Wang
李海濱
as Me
Kenya Sawada
as Inokichi Sakatsuka
Cai Weidong
as Er Bozi
Chen Lianmei
as Aunt
Yoshimoto Miyaji
as Koji Nonomura
