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Devils on the Doorstep (simplified Chinese: 鬼子来了; traditional Chinese: 鬼子來了; Japanese: 鬼が来た!; literally "the devils are here"; the devil is a term of abuse for foreign invaders, here referring to brutal and violent Japanese invaders in China during World War II) is a 2000 Chinese black comedy war film directed, co-written and produced by Jiang Wen, starring Jiang ...
- Jiang Wen, Dong Ping, Yang Hongguang, Liu Xiaodian, Liu Xiaodong
- Cui Jian, Liu Xing, Li Haiying
- US$3.9 million, US$2.6 million
- Jiang Wen, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding, Jiang Hongbo
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 of 1944 and '45.
Discussion on films made in China about the anti-Japanese war in the 1980s, as well as Yangguang canlan de rizi/In the Heat of the Sun (1994), Jiang's only other film as director, reveals how ...
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Dec 18, 2002 · Director, Writer. 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.
Mar 14, 2001 · 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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- Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Hongbo Jiang
- Wen Jiang
Oct 26, 2009 · Devils On The Doorstep is the second feature directed by ... and violent black-and-white anti-war film—possibly great, but certainly harrowing. A movie to be slightly feared, in other words ...
Oct 17, 2007 · It is totally different from those main-stream anti-Japanese war films we can see throughout our early life, which still can be seen being replayed in CCTV (China Central Television) over and again again. In those films, almost all Chinese, young or old, men or women, were all warriors fighting against the Japanese invaders.
