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14 March 2001 (France) more
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During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town... more | add synopsis
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6 wins & 1 nomination more
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Award-Winning Director Blackballed In China
(From Studio Briefing - Film News. 18 July 2000)
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A must-see film, especially for Chinese more (18 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Wen Jiang | ... | Ma Dasan | |
| Yihong Jiang | ... | Yu'er (as Hongbo Jiang) | |
| Teruyuki Kagawa | ... | Kosaburo Hanaya | |
| Ding Yuan | ... | Dong Hanchen | |
| Zhijun Cong | ... | Grandfather | |
| Zi Xi | ... | Liu Wang | |
| Haibin Li | ... | Me | |
| Kenya Sawada | ... | Inokichi Sakatsuka | |
| Weidong Cai | ... | Er Bozi | |
| Lianmei Chen | ... | Aunt | |
| Yoshimoto Miyaji | ... | Koji Nonomura | |
| Qiang Chen | ... | 'One-Stroke' Liu | |
| David Wu | ... | Major Gao |
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Devils on the Doorstep (International: English title)
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139 min | France:162 min (Cannes Film Festival)
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This is the second time I see this film. As a Chinese, I feel a strong urge as well as an obligation to write some comment about it. I can safely conclude that the film vividly showed what the real situation was during the Japanese occupation in China back in WW2.
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. We all know that it wasn't true. From this film, we can see how ignorant and stupid those Chinese peasants were. It gives us a chance to review what was really going on during that time. It is a history we cannot deny. As a matter of fact, this film was banned in mainland China by some kind of a "censorship" mainly because it revealed so much truth.
The director of the film, Jiangwen, is my only favorite director from China. You can say he is ambitious, a genius or whatever. But i say that he is a director with a sense of responsibility to our nation, to our people, to those heroes and civilians died in the war. He is not afraid to dig up the less-bright side of the history and present it to us, to those younger generation who never go through the war. It reminds us never to forget history.