Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan
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The events of Devils on the Doorstep take place in the last few years of the Second Sino-Japanese War. While the story is fiction, it is set during the events of 1944-1945 and the final moments leading up to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II and the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Devils on the Doorstep: Directed by Wen Jiang. With Wen Jiang, Hongbo Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ding Yuan. Villagers in World War II China are unsure what to do with the two enemy prisoners who have been left in their care.
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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Wen Jiang
- 2001-03-14
Shot in rich, shadowy black-and-white, Devils chronicles, with increasingly amused irony, the relationship between reluctant captors and befuddled captives. Dec 17, 2002. Jiang Wen's deceptively...
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- Wen Jiang
- Wen Jiang
- Comedy, Drama
Apr 15, 2005 · Set in an impoverished farming village in northern China near the Great Wall during the winter of 1944 and '45, a war drama about the villagers of an area that has been under Japanese occupation since the 1930's who have grown to tolerate the occupying "devils"--enforcerers who demand a...
- Wen Jiang
- Sawada Kenya
Dec 18, 2002 · 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.
In a small village near the Great Wall, against the backdrop of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the ordinary lives of its inhabitants are about to change drastically when two prisoners are dumped into the house of the unsuspecting peasant, Ma Dasan.
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Dec 18, 2002 · Jiang Wen's grimly amusing antiwar film ''Devils on the Doorstep'' is set in an impoverished farming village in northern China near the Great Wall during the winter...
