Gui zi lai le = Devils on the doorstep / [presented by] Fortissimo Film Sales ; Asian Union Film & Entertainment Ltd. ; China Film Co-production Corporation ; produced & directed by Jiang Wen ; story by Jiang Wen, Shu Ping ; screenplay by Shu Ping, Shi Jianquan, Jiang Wen, You Fengwei.
鬼子来了 Devils on the doorstep / [presented by] Fortissimo Film Sales ; Asian Union Film & Entertainment Ltd. ; China Film Co-production Corporation ; produced & directed by Jiang Wen ; story by Jiang Wen, Shu Ping ; screenplay by Shu Ping, Shi Jianquan, Jiang Wen, You Fengwei.
Banned in China, Jiang Wen's ravishingly photographed 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.
| Uniform Title: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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| Language: | Chinese Japanese English |
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Chinese |
| Language and/or Writing System: |
Chinese or Japanese language with optional English subtitles. |
| Published: |
[United States] :
Home Vision Entertainment,
[2005]
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| Edition: | [Home Vision Entertainment ed.]. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
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| Local Note: |
MSU: Another edition is on reserve under the title: Gui zi lai le = During that war (PN1995.9.C47 G8599 2005 VideoDVD) |
| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Variant Title: |
Devils on the doorstep [Parallel title]
During that war |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
Banned in China, Jiang Wen's ravishingly photographed 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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| Note: | "[This] version ... presented in this DVD edition by Home Vision Entertainment is the only version that exists for worldwide release. The version shown in Cannes was a working version that was later cut with the director's total involvement in order to enhance the film's commercial prospects and to tighten the storyline, which he did not have time to do before the Cannes premiere. The negatives were all cut to conform to this version. One or two prints of the longer cut were left to circulate to a few film festivals, but they are not approved by the director for commercial release"--Container insert. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000. Based on the novel by You Fengwei. Special features: introduction by Steven Soderbergh; reprinted interview with director Jiang Wen (in container insert); original theatrical trailer; Jiang Wen biography and filmography. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | CM9 D0048306 VideoDVD |
| Audience: |
Not rated. |
| Awards: | Winner, Grand Prix, Cannes Film Festival, 2000. |
| ISBN: | 0780029755 9780780029750 |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Gu Changwei ; editors, Zhang Yifan, Folmer Weisinger ; music, Cui Jian, Liu Xing, Li Haiying. |
| System Details: | DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1); Dolby Digital 5.1. |
| Cast: |
Jiang Wen, Jiang Hongbo, Kagawa Teruyuki, Yuan Ding, Cong Zhijun, Chen Qiang, Chen Shu, Sawada Kenya, David Wu. |