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    Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le) Devils on the Doorstep (Guizi Lai Le)
   

         
     
     
  Director Jiang Wen
Stars Jiang We, Jiang Hongbo, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding and Cong Zhijun
Running time 162 minutes
Made China 2000

THE Grand Prix prize winner at Cannes, this is a look at the Sino-Japanese relations over the course of the Japanese occupation of China in 1944 focusing on the way events affect a small community. As two prisoners, one Japanese, the other his Chinese translator, are left in the custody of the village, the film explores what the two national identities really stand for.

 

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