"The Devil is Coming" is the second work of director Jiang Wen.
In 1994, Jiang Wen's directorial debut "Sunny Day" was released. Let Xia Yu take down the Cannes Film Emperor.
Jiang Wen is a director with a very distinct personal color, most of his works are polarized by word of mouth, and people who understand him have pushed his works as gods "Sunny Day", "The Devil Is Coming", and "The Sun Also Rises". People who don't know him say that he pretends to be sophisticated and disease-free and moans "One Step Away".
Among the works of director Jiang Wen, in addition to the polarized works of word-of-mouth, there are also works that can unify ordinary moviegoers and film critics, "Let the Bullets Fly" and "Evil Does Not Pressure the Right".
Therefore, Jiang Wen is a rare ghost director in the history of Chinese cinema. Most of his works are self-written and self-directed, and his artistic achievements should not be underestimated.
"The Devil Is Coming" shined at the Cannes Film Festival that year, but it was never released in China, and it was eventually banned because the subject matter was too sensitive.
"Here Comes the Devil" tells the story of Ma Dasan, a farmer in the village of Hangjiatai in Hebei Province, China, who lived a peaceful life under Japanese rule during World War II. One night, the guerrillas kidnapped the Japanese army soldier Hanaya Kosaburo and the interpreter Dong Hanchen, put them in Ma Dasan's home, and ordered Ma Dasan to take good care of them, and a few days later Chinese New Year's Eve to pick them up. However, Chinese New Year's Eve in the past, they did not see anyone for a long time, so Ma Dasan and the villagers listened to Dong Hanchen's advice and handed over Hanaya Kosaburo to the Japanese gendarmerie in exchange for food. Ma Dasan and the others came to the gendarmerie, and the Japanese army was very polite to Ma and the others on the surface, but behind the scenes, it was The responsibility of Hanaya Kosaburo to humiliate the Japanese army.
A few days later, the entire Japanese gendarmerie team went to the hanging platform to send food to the villagers, but the wine arrived in Handan but the killing machine was revealed...
Tell me why "Here Comes the Devil" was banned. One reason is that the film not only does not show the hatred and resistance of the Chinese people against the invaders in the context of the anti-Japanese resistance, but instead highlights and concentrates on exaggerating its ignorant, insensitive and servile side.