Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
October 26, 2001Release Date
Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
October 26, 2001Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Jiang Wen
Ma Dasan / Director / Screenplay / Story / Producer
Jiang Hongbo
Yu'er
Teruyuki Kagawa
Kosaburo Hanaya
David Wu
Major Gao
Yuan Ding
Dong Hanchen
Cong Zhijun
Grandfather
Li Congxi
Liu Wang / Line Producer
Zi Xi
Liu Wang
Li Haibin
Me
Kenya Sawada
Inokichi Sakatsuka
Cai Weidong
Er Bozi / Art Direction
Chen Lianmei
Aunt
Yoshimoto Miyaji
Koji Nonomura
Chen Qiang
Lone-Stroke Liu
Haiying Li
Writer
Shu Chen
Qiye
Jianquan Shi
Brother-in-law
Katsuhiro Nagano
Telephone Line Layers
Ryosuke Uomi
Telephone Line Layers
Yunshen Bai
Liu Wang's Father
Haizhao Zhou
Little Thresher Yu'er's son
Liu Xiaodong
Producer
Haidong Xu
De'rtou
Shiru Du
De'rtou's Father
Youren He
Drum Singer
Yihe Wang
Drum Singer
Junji Kajioka
Japanese Officer
Masayuki Yamada
Japanese Officer
Yuta Ishiyama
Japanese Officer
Yayoi Inoue
Japanese prostitute
Eri Kitahara
Japanese prostitute
Mirei Nakahara
Japanese prostitute
Tomoko Itaya
Japanese prostitute
Etsuko Morita
Japanese prostitute
Mineko Kokaji
Japanese prostitute
Shu Ping
KMT Army Officer / Screenplay / Story
Hu Jiang
KMT Army Soldier
James W. Mayfield
US Marine
Abram Sauer
US Marine
Jincai Jiang
Japanese dancer
Mamoru Yamada
Japanese soldier
Yoshimoto Inoue
Japanese soldier
Daisaku Uchino
Japanese soldier
Makoto Shibazaki
Japanese soldier
Junichi Kajioka
Japanese sergeant (uncredited)
Shi Jianquan
Production Design / Writer
Gu Changwei
Director of Photography
Cui Jian
Music
Haiying Li
Writer / Music / Assistant Director
Xing Liu
Writer / Music
You Fengwei
Novel / Screenplay
Dong Ping
Executive Producer
Liu Xiaodian
Producer
Liu Xiangdong
Producer
Hua Zhang
Line Producer
Zheng Quangang
Executive Producer
Folmer Wiesinger
Editor
Yifan Zhang
Editor
Shiyun Tang
Production Design
Ma Wenzhong
Assistant Director
Quan Wu
Assistant Director
Yang Zhang
Assistant Director
Yijun Zhao
Assistant Director
Steve Burgess
Sound Re-Recording Mixer
James Harvey
Sound Effects Editor
Francis Ward Lindsay
Foley Artist
Ling Wu
Sound Recordist
Yan Geng
Stunt Coordinator
Shengui Wang
Stunt Coordinator
Yongcheng Wang
Stunt Coordinator
Fan Yu
Stunt Coordinator
Chunzhong Zhang
Stunt Coordinator
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Details.
Release DateOctober 26, 2001
Original Name鬼子来了
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 19m
Content RatingNR
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Devils on the Doorstep (simplified Chinese: 鬼子来了; traditional Chinese: 鬼子來了; Japanese: 鬼が来た!; literally "the devils are here"; the devil is a term of abuse for foreign invaders, here referring to brutal and violent Japanese invaders in China during World War II) is a 2000 Chinese black comedy war film directed, co-written and produced by Jiang Wen, starring Jiang himself, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding and Jiang Hongbo. Shot in black and white to mimic old-time war movies, the film premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival on 12 May where it won the Grand Prix. The film was initially not allowed to be shown in theaters in its native China for a certain period but has eventually been made commercially available there since.
The story takes place in a small remote village named Guajiatai (or Rack Armor Terrace) near Shanhaiguan, Hebei at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. One night, a mysterious man brings two captives in sacks (Japanese soldier Teruyuki and translator Dong Hanchen) to the doorstep of a peasant's (Ma Dasan) home and threatens Ma to keep them until he returns to pick them up on New Year's Eve. Fearing both the mystery man and the Japanese, the whole village falls into a dilemma over what to do with the two prisoners.
The film is inspired by the novel Survival by You Fengwei, and was greatly modified during the process of adaptation. This film shelved the theme of "the brave resistance against Japanese aggression" in the original literature, and focused on the themes of "the ignorance of the peasants" and "the absurdity of the war." Contrary to its title, Devils on the Doorstep is not at its core an anti-Japanese war film. In Jiang's own words, the film shows how Chinese literature and film has perpetuated an attitude of blaming the aggressor and casting the Chinese population as passive victims of aggression. Jiang hoped that the film illuminates this common human psychological trait of blaming others for disaster that goes beyond Chineseness.