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[4] Contrary to its title, Devils on the Doorstep is not at its core an anti-Japanese war film. In Jiang's own words, the film shows how Chinese literature and film has perpetuated an attitude of blaming the aggressor and casting the Chinese population as passive victims of aggression.
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.
Apr 24, 2014 · Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, Devils on the Doorstep follows Ma Dasan (Jiang Wen), a hapless peasant living in a remote Chinese village during the Japanese occupation in the waning days of World War Two. A few nights before Chinese New Year, a masked assailant dumps two sacks on Ma’s doorstep and tells Ma that he ...
- Aren Bergstrom
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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- Comedy, Drama, War
- Wen Jiang
- 2001-03-14
Dec 18, 2002 · A fantastic anti-war narrative by Jiang Wen that clocks in at 140 minutes and is so well-paced that it feels like half that time. The comedic overtone that permeates the movie serves to provide comic relief and underscore the strong anti-war, anti-nationalist message.
Devils on the Doorstep, a World War II tragicomedy set in Japanese-occupied Northern China, intertwines wicked fun with a sense of imminent peril. The clever set-up -- a Chinese peasant finds himself the unwitting keeper of a Japanese POW and his translator -- is rife with philosophical possibility.
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Sep 10, 2012 · Set in 1944/45, on the eve of Japan's defeat, it centres on a North China villager (Jiang) who is dismayed to have foisted on him two prisoners: a Japanese soldier and a Chinese collaborator.
