Gui zi lai le [videorecording] = Devils on the doorstep / Asian Union Film & Entertainment Ltd. ; Fortissimo Films ; produced by Jiang Wen ; screenplay by Jiang Wen, You Fengwei, Shi Jianquan and Shu Ping ; directed by Jiang Wen.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000. Special features: introduction by Steven Soderbergh; reprinted interview with director Jiang Wen; original theatrical trailer; Jiang Wen biography and filmography. Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding, Cong Zhijun.
Summary:
Banned in China, Jiang Wen's anti-war epic is set in 1945 in Japanese-occupied rural China where a peasant is forced to shelter two prisoners: one Japanese who wants to die, and his Chinese interpreter who wants to live.
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