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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 1944 and '45. Although the ...
'Devils on the Doorstep' is a surprisingly original and well-made film from China, detailing their occupation at the end of World War II by focusing in on a small village under Japanese rule. The film mixes war, violence, comedy, fear and tragedy in a careful manner, making sure that the sometimes opposing styles never clash.
May 15, 2000 · A potentially sharp, black comedy about nationalism and rote thinking lies beneath the rubble of "Devils on the Doorstep," a drastically overlong and frustratingly discursive portrait of a tiny ...
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 national identity and ...
Sep 10, 2012 · Devils, though, adds a smart, sardonic coda. 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 ...
Oct 26, 2009 · Devils On The Doorstep is the second feature directed by Chinese actor Jiang Wen, who’s probably best known in the U.S. as one of the stars of Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum. It played in ...
Devils on the Doorstep. 70 Metascore. 2000. 2 hr 19 mins. Drama, Action & Adventure. NR. Watchlist. During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small ...
