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During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant’s home in a small town. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
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. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous ...
《鬼子来了》是由姜文执导，姜文、史建全 、述平、尤凤伟编剧，姜文、姜宏波、香川照之等主演的喜剧战争剧情片。影片于 2000年5月12日(戛纳电影节)上映 、2002年4月27日(日本)上映。影片讲述了在抗日战争期间，游击队把日军士兵花屋小三郎和翻译董汉臣捆绑塞入麻袋放在农民马大三家里，并吩咐 ...
Apr 24, 2014 · Review: Devils on the Doorstep (2000) Jiang Wen’s World War Two drama Devils on the Doorstepis both modern and classical. It’s shot like a contemporary indie feature with handheld cameras and a predominance of close-ups, but it’s also black and white with a soft film stock grain like films of old. Its subject matter gets downright grizzly ...
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. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners.
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant’s home in a small town. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
Rich in shadowy metaphor and as sharp as a samurai sword, Jiang Wen's Devils on the Doorstep is a wartime farce in the alternately comic and gut-wrenching style of Joseph Heller or Kurt Vonnegut.
