Guizi Lai Le
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Wen Jiang
Wen Jiang
Jiang Hongbo
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yuan Ding
Cong Zhijun
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
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.
Director
Wen Jiang
Cast
Wen Jiang
Jiang Hongbo
Teruyuki Kagawa
Yuan Ding
Cong Zhijun
Xi Zi
Li Haibin
Kenya Sawada
Cai Weidong
Chen Shu
Chen Lianmei
Shi Jianquan
Katsuhiro Nagano
Ryosuke Uomi
Bai Yunshen
Yoshitomo Miyaji
David Wu
Zhou Haizhao
Xu Haidong
Du Shiru
He Youren
Wang Yihe
Junji Kajioka
Naopyuki Yakabu
Masayuki Yamada
Yuta Ishiyama
Yayoi Inoue
Eri Kitahara
Mirei Nakahara
Tomoko Itaya
Etsuko Morita
Mineko Kokaji
James W Mayfield
Abram Sauer
Jiang Jincai
Mamoru Yamada
Yoshimoto Inoue
Daisaku Uchino
Makoto Shibazaki
Crew
Jin Be
Yuan Bin
Wen Bo
Steve Burgess
Lin Cen
Sandrine Chenivesse
Huang Fan
Yu Fan
Bruno Gensburger
Yang Hong Guang
Li Haibing
James Harvey
Zhang Hua
Linda Jaivin
Wen Jiang
Wen Jiang
Wen Jiang
Wen Jiang
Liu Jie
Fu Jun
Adam Kerby
Thomas Kloubert
Francis Lindsay
Gerald Long
Lin Qian
Wu Quan
Zheng Quangang
Tony Rayns
Wang Sengui
Tang Shiyun
Cai Weidong
Folmer Weisinger
Ma Wenzhong
Folmer Wiesinger
Geng Yan
Zhang Yang
Zhang Yifan
Zhao Yijun
Zhang Ying
Zhang Yishu
Wang Yongcheng
Song Yu
Wang Zhe
Wang Zhenhui
Wang Zhigang
Xi Zi
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States August 2000
Released in United States November 2000
Released in United States 2001
Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Director's Focus) August 13-27, 2000.
Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 1-16, 2000.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme Features) January 24 - February 24, 2001.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 19 - May 3, 2001.
Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 24 - June 17, 2001.
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival April 19 - May 3, 2001.)
Released in United States 2000 (NY)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Seattle International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) May 24 - June 17, 2001.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme Features) January 24 - February 24, 2001.)
Released in United States November 2000 (Shown at London Film Festival (World Cinema) November 1-16, 2000.)
Released in United States August 2000 (Shown at Edinburgh International Film Festival (Director's Focus) August 13-27, 2000.)
