Devils on the Doorstep (2000)
4.1 of 5 from 50 ratings
2h 19min
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- Synopsis:
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and banned in its native country, Jiang Wen’s ravishingly photographed anti-war epic is set in 1945 in a Japanese-occupied rural Chinese village. Wen stars as Ma Dasan, a peasant, who, one night at gunpoint, is compelled to shelter two prisoners. One is a captured Japanese soldier who wants to be killed, the other his Chinese interpreter, who wants to stay alive. As the days turn into months, Dasan and his fellow villagers keep their unwanted guests hidden from the Japanese forces, while deciding whether or not to execute their captives. The film's rich, bold cinematography is matched only by its approach to the subject matter, which, in turn, attracted the unwanted attention of the Chinese censors who ultimately banned it from Chinese screens. - Actors:
- Wen Jiang, Kenya Sawada, Yihong Jiang, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ding Yuan, Zhijun Cong, Zi Xi, Haibin Li, Weidong Cai, Lianmei Chen, Yoshimoto Miyaji, Qiang Chen, David Wu
- Directors:
- Wen Jiang
- Writers:
- Wen Jiang, Haiying Li
- Others:
- Jiang Wen
- Aka:
- Guizi Lai Le
- Genres:
- Comedy
- Countries:
- China
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