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In an interview, [6] Jiang Wen explained the reason why he made Devils On The Doorstep. The film not only reproduces the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during the time in which it was set, but also acts as a warning.
The film's ambivalent stance toward the Communist movement led the current Chinese government to ban the film and forced Jiang Wen into a two-year hiatus from making films. While the film was not a commercial success, Devils on the Doorstep received critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, winning the jury's Grand Prize in 2000.
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.
Sep 7, 2019 · Jiang shows the malleability of public opinion and draws humor from the absurdist nature of tradition and the villagers’ communal decision making. But the strange mixture of tones — slapstick set against a gathering sense that something awful might happen at any moment — is a Jiang hallmark.
Devils on the Doorstep is Jiang's scalding tragicomedy set in a Chinese village during the wartime occupation by the Japanese. One villager, Ma Dasan (played by Jiang), is told to hold a Japanese...
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.
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...
