Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Chinese
- Country
- China
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Chinese — subtitles on.
The story
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?
- world war ii
- japanese occupation of china
The bill
- 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 — Lone-Stroke Liu
- Katsuhiro Nagano — Telephone Line Layers
- Directed
- Jiang Wen
- Written
- Shi Jianquan, You Fengwei, Jiang Wen, Shu Ping, Haiying Li
Production
- Rating
- 8.2 / 10 · 194 ratings
- Studio
- Huayi Brothers Advertising, Asian Union Film & Entertainment, Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning, CMC Xiandai Trade Co., China Film Co-Production
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
