Guizi lai le
To the average Chinese peasant, foreigners were always ''devils''- potentially dangerous outsiders who arrived on Chinese soil with dubious motives and nefarious intent. That was especially true of the Japanese soldiers who invaded China in the 1930s, occupying large tracts of the mainland.
In 1944, Ma Dasan and his neighbors in Rack-Armour Terrace, a desolate mountain town, resented giving a percentage of their grain harvest to the Japanese ''devils'', but otherwise co-existed with them quite peacefully. Things began to change the night when two prisoners of the anti-Japanese resistance were dumped on Ma Dasan's doorstep.
Ma was told to keep them hidden for a few days. But the days stretched into months. Unwilling to keep the prisoners any longer, Ma Dasan came up with the idea of returning them to the Japanese army in exchange for two carts of grain. The outcome of this scheme taught him the hard way that ''devils'' are not necessarily foreign and that war can turn the best of men into the worst.
Directed by
Wen Jiang
Cast
Jiang Wen Ma - Dasan
Jiang Hongbo - Yu'er
Teruyuki Kagawa - Hanaya Kosaburo--The Prisoner
Yuan Ding Dong - Hanchen--The Translator
Cong Zhijun - Grandfather
Xi Zi Liu - Wang
Li Haibin - 'Me'
Kenya Sawada - Sakatsuka Inokichi
Cai Weidong - Er Bozi
Chen Shu - Qiye
Chen Lianmei - Aunt
Shi Jianquan - Brother-in-Law
Katsuhiro Nagano - Telephone Line Layer
Ryosuke Uomi - Telephone Line Layer
Production Co.
Asian Union Film and Entertainment Ltd.
China Co-Production Film Corporation
CMC Xiandai Trade Co
Beijing Zhongbo-Times Film Planning
Huayi Brothers Advertising
Zhongji Modern Trade Ltd
Produced by
Dong Ping
Chen Weiming
Jiang Wen
Zheng Quangang
Chen Weiming
Studio
Key Films Roma
Writer
Wen Jiang
Music
Chen Min
