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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.
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.
Devils on the Doorstep. Villagers (Wen Jiang, Jiang Hongbo) 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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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...
Plot. During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners (a Japanese soldier & Chinese translator for the Japanese) are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners for 5 days, until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected.
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.
May 8, 2000 · More of an all-out assault on the senses than a mere movie, Devils On The Doorstep is an exhausting marathon on the complexities of Japanese-Chinese relations, the nature of...
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.
Devils on the Doorstep is a 2000 Chinese black comedy war film directed, co-written and produced by Jiang Wen, starring Jiang himself, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding and...
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 of...
