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Dominican Rep. Devils on the Doorstep
- Original title
- Guizi lai le (Devils on the Doorstep)
- Year
- 2000
- Running time
- 130 min.
- Country
China- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Jiang Wen- Haibin Li
Jiang Hongbo
Cong Zhijun
Teruyuki Kagawa- Ding Yuan
- Zi Xi
Chen Qiang- Yoshimoto Miyaji
David Wu
Kenya Sawada- Weidong Cai
- Lianmei Chen
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama. War | China-Japan War (II)
- Synopsis
- 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 translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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2000: Cannes: Grand Jury Prize
- Critics' reviews
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"Though shorn of 20 minutes for its U.S. debut, the film's wry comic portrait of the Japanese Occupation during WWII hasn't lost any of its incendiary brilliance"
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"A wild ride that effortlessly combines devilish dark humor, slapstick comedy, extreme violence and bitter satire"
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"Has all the classic faults of a picture not only directed by an actor but by an actor who is his own producer."
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"Jiang's razor-sharp conclusions are less about the Japanese army or the Chinese government than about simple human nature."
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