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Devils on the Doorstep was written, directed and stared by Jiang Wen. As director, it’s Jiang Wen’ s second film and I think it’s the greatest Chinese film in recent years, though forbidden by Chinese government. The plot is very simple. During the war of Anti-Japanese, two Japanese captives, one Japanese officer the other Chinese translator, are dumped into a remote Chinese village by a mysterious man. Chinese peasant Dasan are asked to keep them for five days until the man come again, but five days later nobody come. So the whole village gets into an awkward situation: they cannot find Chinese military to send the two captives, they dare not report them to Japanese occupier, dare not kill them. So they have to keep them, to avoid the Japanese captive’s suicide, avoid them being found by Japanese army. They even feed them with their best food. At la