If you loved Let the Bullets Fly, try Devils on the Doorstep
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Jiang Wen, and they both carry the foreign gem mood tag. If that's the register that drew you to Let the Bullets Fly, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Devils on the Doorstep is
You enter a shuttered farmhouse behind Japanese lines where two prisoners wait, one shouting orders the other translating in panic. The farmer obeys orders to house them until New Year or face worse. Observers watch how fear twists hospitality into hostage games. A black comedy made in 2001, it leaves the door slightly ajar.

